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The Skanda Purana (IAST: Skanda Purāṇa) is the largest Mukhyapurāṇa, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts. [1] The text contains over 81,000 verses, and is of Shaivite literature, [2] titled after Skanda, a son of Shiva and Parvati (who is also known as Murugan in Tamil literature). [3]
The north Indian manuscripts of Padma Purana are very different from south Indian versions, and the various recensions in both groups in different languages (Devanagari and Bengali, for example) show major inconsistencies. [35] Like the Skanda Purana, it is a detailed treatise on travel and pilgrimage centers in India. [34] [36] 3: Vishnu ...
Shavite puranas such as Ganesha Purana, Shiva Purana and Skanda Purana state that Ganesha is the elder of the two. [37] [38] [39] Mahabharata and the Puranas mention various other brothers and sisters of Skanda or Kartikeya. [40] In the northern and eastern Indian traditions, Kartikeya is generally regarded as a celibate bachelor. [5]
Skanda then pays his respects to Shiva, who is a form of Vishnu and Vishnu, who is a form of Shiva. Further, Vishnu is said to dwell in the heart of Shiva and vice versa. Shiva and Vishnu are the one and the same. [11] [12] The Skanda Upanishad further compares the body to the temple and the jiva (life-force) to Shiva.
— Skanda Purana, Kaumarika Kanda, Chapter 30, Verses 58 - 61 Kartikeya ignored Taraka's words of condescension and battled him, hurling his terrible shakti on the asuras. When the miraculous missile was thrown by Skanda of unmeasured splendour, excessively terrible clusters of meteors fell on the earth.
The Guru Gita (lit. ' Song of the Guru ') is a Hindu scripture that is said to have been authored by the sage Vyasa.The verses of this scripture may also be chanted. The text is part of the larger Skanda Purana.
The text claims to be a part of the Skanda Purana. [1] It is actually a collection of disparate texts that date from 5th to 13th centuries, and have been organized as part of a single text relatively recently. [2] [3]
The puja is described in the Skanda Purana, [1] a medieval era Sanskrit text. [2] [3] According to Madhuri Yadlapati, the Satyanarayana Puja is an archetypal example of how "the Hindu puja facilitates the intimacy of devotional worship while enabling a humble sense of participating gratefully in a larger sacred world". [4]