Shloka 4

स्कन्दसेनापत्याभिषेकः

Skanda’s Consecration as Devasenāpati

Devanagari script

कुमारश्न यथोत्पन्नो यथा चाग्ने: सुतो5भवत्‌ | यथा रुद्राच्च सम्भूतो गड़ायां कृत्तिकासु च,कुमार कार्तिकेयकी उत्पत्ति कैसे हुई? वे अग्निके पुत्र कैसे हुए? भगवान्‌ शंकरने तथा गंगादेवी और कृत्तिकाओंसे उनका जन्म कैसे सम्भव हुआ?

Transliteration

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca |

kumāraḥ kathaṃ yathotpannaḥ yathā cāgneḥ suto 'bhavat |

yathā rudrācca sambhūto gaṅgāyāṃ kṛttikāsu ca ||

Translation

യുധിഷ്ഠിരൻ പറഞ്ഞു— കുമാരൻ (കാർത്തികേയൻ) എങ്ങനെ ജനിച്ചു? അവൻ എങ്ങനെ അഗ്നിയുടെ പുത്രനായി? രുദ്രൻ (ശിവൻ), ഗംഗ, കൃത്തികകൾ എന്നിവയുമായി അവന്റെ ജന്മബന്ധം എങ്ങനെ സംഭവിച്ചു?

Word by Word

कुमारःKumara (the divine boy, Skanda)

यथाhow; in what manner

उत्पन्नःborn; arisen

यथाand how

चand

अग्नेःof Agni (Fire-god)

सुतःson

अभवत्became; was

यथाhow

रुद्रात्from Rudra (Śiva)

चand

सम्भूतःoriginated; come into being

गङ्गायाम्in/at Gaṅgā

कृत्तिकासुamong/in the Kṛttikās (Pleiades)

चand

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Kumāra (Skanda/Kārttikeya)

Agni

Rudra (Śiva)

Gaṅgā

Kṛttikās

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames a dharmic inquiry into complex causality: a single being may be linked to multiple sources (Śiva, Agni, Gaṅgā, and the Kṛttikās) without contradiction, highlighting how divine narratives integrate different agencies to express cosmic order and sacred responsibility.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira asks for an account of Kumāra/Skanda/Kārttikeya’s origin—specifically how he is called Agni’s son, how he is connected to Rudra (Śiva), and how Gaṅgā and the Kṛttikās function as channels or mothers in his birth.