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An inscription on a fifth-century stone pillar in Northern India describes Skanda as the guardian of the Divine Mothers.<ref>Banerjea, ''Hindu Iconography'', pp. 363–64.</ref> Karttikeya is sometimes portrayed with six heads. One tale says Karttikeya was nurtured by the six Pleiades and he developed six faces so he could be suckled by each of them. Another tale says he was miraculously born as the six sons of six spinsters. Shiva’s wife, Parvati, hugged all six infants so affectionately that they became one person with six heads.<ref>Margaret Stutley and James Stutley, ''Harper’s Dictionary of Hinduism'' (HarperCollins Publishers, 1984), p. 144; ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', 1963, s.v. “Kartikeya.”</ref> Commentator R. S. Nathan says, “The six heads stand for the use of the power of discrimination in the six different directions, to keep under control the six qualities that pull down man from his spiritual progress.”<ref>R. S. Nathan, ''Symbolism in Hinduism'' (Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, 1983), p. 20.</ref> | An inscription on a fifth-century stone pillar in Northern India describes Skanda as the guardian of the Divine Mothers.<ref>Banerjea, ''Hindu Iconography'', pp. 363–64.</ref> Karttikeya is sometimes portrayed with six heads. One tale says Karttikeya was nurtured by the six Pleiades and he developed six faces so he could be suckled by each of them. Another tale says he was miraculously born as the six sons of six spinsters. Shiva’s wife, Parvati, hugged all six infants so affectionately that they became one person with six heads.<ref>Margaret Stutley and James Stutley, ''Harper’s Dictionary of Hinduism'' (HarperCollins Publishers, 1984), p. 144; ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', 1963, s.v. “Kartikeya.”</ref> Commentator R. S. Nathan says, “The six heads stand for the use of the power of discrimination in the six different directions, to keep under control the six qualities that pull down man from his spiritual progress.”<ref>R. S. Nathan, ''Symbolism in Hinduism'' (Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, 1983), p. 20.</ref> | ||
Margaret and James Stutley write in ''Harper’s Dictionary of Hinduism'' that Skanda was born when Shiva, who, “having attained complete mastery of his instincts, applied his sexual energy to spiritual and intellectual ends.”<ref>''Harper’s Dictionary of Hinduism'', p. 282 n. 3.</ref> This is illustrated in the many legends that tell of Karttikeya being born motherless and from the seed of Shiva that fell into the Ganges. | |||
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