Kṛttikās
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Kṛttikā stars · the Kṛttikās
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Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The Kṛttikās (Pleiades), personified as wives of the gods, invoked as agents who confuse a rival's weaving.
She who first makes the peacock-pattern — together with the spider and with śakā — the Kṛttikās, wives of the gods, have confused this thread.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Star-nymphs appointed to nurse the infant Kārttikeya.
Then the unsurpassed milk of the Kṛttikās welled forth, and he, becoming six-faced to match the six of them, drank the milk from their breasts.
Then, when the boy was born, Indra together with the hosts of Maruts appointed the Kṛttikā stars to nourish him with milk.
The gods called him Skanda — 'the one who flowed forth' — born from the outflow of the womb: