Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purânic . nts be disturbed, national calamities are he start wildly from his seat, seize a sword, or make anywarlike movement, war is expected. 2. KARTIKEYA. Kartikeya, the god of war, and generalissimo of the armies ofthe gods, though called the younger son of Siva and Parvati, according to most of thePuranic legends, is their sononly in the sense that theyformed him. Brahma arrangedfor his birth in answer to theprayers of the gods for a com-petent leader of their Ramayana* says : WhileSiva, the lord of the gods, wasperforming austerities, the
Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purânic . nts be disturbed, national calamities are he start wildly from his seat, seize a sword, or make anywarlike movement, war is expected. 2. KARTIKEYA. Kartikeya, the god of war, and generalissimo of the armies ofthe gods, though called the younger son of Siva and Parvati, according to most of thePuranic legends, is their sononly in the sense that theyformed him. Brahma arrangedfor his birth in answer to theprayers of the gods for a com-petent leader of their Ramayana* says : WhileSiva, the lord of the gods, wasperforming austerities, the otherdeities went to Brahma andasked for a general in the roomof Mahadeva, who, it seems, hadformerly acted in that He, said they, whom thoudidst formerly give as a leaderof our armies (Mahadeva), isnow performing great austeri-ties, along with Uma. Brahmasays that in consequence of thecurse of Uma no son could beborn of any wives of the gods,but that Agni should have ason by the river Ganga, who should be their KAIM IKliYA. Muir, O. S. iv. 364. Kartikeya. 277 In the following extract from the Mahabharata* is an ex-planation of the statement in the preceding paragraph that Agniwas to be the father of this god. Kartikeya has just beeninstalled as general, when, the god whose banner is a bull (Siva),arriving with his goddess, paid him honour, well call Agni Rudra, consequently he (Kartikeya) isthe son of Rudra. Having seen him thus honoured by Rudra,all the deities consequently call him, who is the most ex-cellent of the gifted, the son of Rudra. For this child wasproduced by Rudra when he entered into fire. Skanda (Kar-tikeya), that most eminent deity, being born of Agni, [who was]Rudra, and from Svaha(Uma) [and] the six wives [of the Rishis],was the son of Rudra. This quotation will be more intelligible after reading whatprecedes it :— Indra being distressed at the defeat of the armiesof the gods by the Danavas, is meditating on thi
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