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KARTIKEYA

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 683 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KARTIKEYA , in See also:

Hindu See also:mythology, the See also:god of See also:war. Of his See also:birth there are various legends. One relates that he had no See also:mother but was produced by See also:Siva alone, and was suckled by six See also:nymphs of the See also:Ganges, being miraculously endowed with six faces that he might simultaneously obtain nourishment from each. Another See also:story is that six babes, miraculously conceived, were See also:born of the six nymphs, and that Parvati, the wife of Siva, in her See also:great See also:affection for them, embraced the infants so closely that they became one, but preserved six faces, twelve arms, feet, eyes, &c. Kartikeya became the See also:victor of giants and the See also:leader of the armies of the gods. He is represented as See also:riding a See also:peacock. In See also:southern See also:India he is known as Subramanya.

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