Kartikeya ended the dispute by growing five more heads in order to have a total of six heads so that he could look at all six mothers and let them each nurse one aspect of him. These six mothers all wanted to take care of him and nurse the baby Kartikeya. After he appears on the banks of the River Ganges, he is seen by the six of the seven brightest stars cluster in the night sky called Krittikas in Hindu texts (called Pleiades). This epithet is also linked to his birth. Agni received the seed and dropped it into the Ganges from which Skanda was born. After many years of abstinence, Shiva's seed became so powerful that the gods, fearing the result, sent Agni, the god of fire, to interrupt Shiva's amorous play with Parvati. Shiva, however, was lost in meditation and was not attracted to Parvati until he was struck by an arrow from the bow of Kamadeva, the god of love, whom he immediately burned to ashes. They sent Parvati to induce Shiva to marry her. In Kalidasa's epic poem Kumarasambhava ("The Birth of the War God" 5th century CE), as in most versions of the story, the gods wished for Skanda to be born in order to destroy the demons Taraka, Simhamukha, and Surapadma, in which the brothers had been granted a boon that he could be killed only by Shiva's power (Skanda was purely born of Shiva). Skanda is derived from skand-, which means "to leap or to attack". In ancient statues, he appears as Mahasena, Skanda, and Vishakha. On some ancient Indo-Scythian coins, his names appear in Greek script as Skanda, Kumara, and Vishaka. On ancient coins where the inscription has survived along with his images, his names appear as Kumara, Brahmanya, or Brahmanyadeva. Others include Aaiyyan, Cheyyon, Senthil, Vēlaṇ, Swaminatha ("ruler of the gods", from -natha king), śaravaṇabhava ("born amongst the reeds"), Arumugam or ṣaṇmukha ("six-faced"), Dandapani ("wielder of the mace", from -pani hand), Guha (cave, secret) or Guruguha (cave-teacher), Kadhirvelan, Kathiresan, Kandhan, Vishakha, and Mahasena. Most common amongst these are Murugan, Kumara, Skanda, and Subrahmanya. Kartikeya is known by many names in ancient and medieval texts. Sculpture of the god Skanda, from Kannauj, North India, circa 8th century. He is also found in other parts of India, sometimes as Skanda, but in a secondary role along with Ganesha, Parvati and Shiva. The Kataragama temple dedicated to him in Sri Lanka attracts Tamils, Sinhalese people and the Vedda people. Three of the six busiest temples in Tamil Nadu are dedicated to him. Kartikeya is found as a primary deity in temples wherever communities of the Tamil people live worldwide, particularly in Tamil Nadu state of India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Canada, and Réunion. He has inspired many poet-saints, such as Arunagirinathar. He grew up quickly becoming a philosopher-warrior, destroyed the demon Tarakasura, Simhamukha, and Surapadma taught the pursuit of an ethical life and the theology of Shaiva Siddhanta. Most icons show him with only one head but some show him with six heads which reflect the legend surrounding his birth. The iconography of Kartikeya varies significantly he is typically represented as an ever-youthful man, riding or near an Indian peafowl, called Paravani, adorned with weapons and sometimes with an emblem of a rooster in the flag he holds. He is found in many medieval temples all over India, such as the Ellora Caves and Elephanta Caves. Archaeological evidence from the 1st-century CE and earlier, where he is found with the Hindu god Agni (fire), suggests that he was a significant deity in early Hinduism. Kartikeya is an ancient god, traceable to the Vedic era. An important deity in the Indian subcontinent since ancient times, Kartikeya is particularly popular and predominantly worshipped in South India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia as Murugan. He is a son of Parvati and Shiva, brother of Ganesha, and a god whose life story has many versions in Hinduism. Kartikeya ( Sanskrit: कार्त्तिकेय, IAST: Kārttikeya : Tamil: கார்த்திகேயன்/முருகன்), also known as Skanda, Kumāra, Murugan, Shanmugha Ṣaṇmukha and Subrahmanya Subrahmaṇya, is the Hindu god of war.
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