Results for "Murugan"

… of Shiva and Parvati, born to slay the asura Tarakasura. As Murugan in the Tamil tradition, he is the cosmic warrior whose Vel pierces ignorance, ego, and fear.

A six-day vow building to a single reenacted battle — and, in the moment of the demon's defeat, a transformation the Tamil retelling insists on keeping: not death, but the enemy re…

Skanda Ṣaṣṭhī is kept for Kārtikeya — Skanda, Murugan in Tamil devotion — across six days culminating on the *ṣaṣṭhī* (sixth tithi) of the bright fortnight of Aippasi …

… *Vel** — his divine spear, gifted by Pārvatī and central to Murugan worship in its own right. The Sanskrit Skanda Purāṇa carries this story within Śaiva literature broadly, but the …

Murugan devotion is substantial enough to carry its own name within the broader Śaiva family: **Kaumāram**, a recognised …

Gaṇeśa's mouse, Śiva's bull, Durgā's lion, Viṣṇu's Garuḍa, Sarasvatī's swan, Yama's buffalo, Kārtikeya's peacock and Indra's elephant: where each pairing comes from in the texts, h…

… the planned essay on Yama (ICON-02). - **Kārtikeya (Skanda, Murugan) — the peacock.** *Source:* Mahābhārata accounts of Skanda's birth list the peacock among gifts the gods gave hi …