Vamana Purana — Birth of Skanda (Kartikeya), Shloka 58
The Birth and Consecration of Skanda (Kartikeya) at Kurukshetra
जिघ्रती कार्त्तिकेयस्य अभिषेकार्द्रमाननम् भात्यद्रिजा यथेन्द्रस्य देवमातादितिः पुरा
jighratī kārttikeyasya abhiṣekārdramānanam bhātyadrijā yathendrasya devamātāditiḥ purā
Während Pārvatī, die Tochter des Berges, das vom Weihebad noch feuchte Antlitz Kārttikeyas roch, erstrahlte sie—wie einst Aditi, die Mutter der Götter, beim Anblick Indras erstrahlte.
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FAQs
The comparison elevates Kārttikeya’s consecration by aligning it with the archetypal Vedic model of divine sovereignty: Indra as paradigmatic king of the gods, and Aditi as the luminous, auspicious divine mother. It frames Skanda’s new status as similarly legitimate and world-ordering.
It highlights immediacy: the consecration has just occurred, and the ritual water is still present. In Purāṇic poetics, such details intensify auspiciousness (maṅgala) and mark the transition into office as freshly conferred.
Primarily a maternal gesture of affection and recognition, but it also functions as a sign of acceptance and blessing immediately after a rite of elevation—an embodied confirmation of the consecrated status.