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.
'He shall be called Kārttikeya;
The gods called him Skanda — 'the one who flowed forth' — born from the outflow of the womb:
Then, when the boy was born, Indra together with the hosts of Maruts appointed the Kṛttikā stars to nourish him with milk.