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
山の娘パールヴァティーが、灌頂の水でなお濡れたカールッティケーヤ（Kārttikeya）の顔を嗅ぎ（口づけし）たとき、彼女は輝き放った――それは古えに、神々の母アディティ（Aditi）がインドラ（Indra）を見て輝いたようであった。
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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.