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Karttikeya
Karttikeya, Lord Shiva's eldest son,
is the God of the War, the war-lord of the Deva (God) army.
He was conceived by his fhather's sprem alone.Then he was nurtured by Agni,
Ganga, Sharavana (forest of reeds) and the Krittikas (six celestial nymphs, the Pleiades) in turn.
His vahana (vehicle) is a peacock.
Other names are:
- Dvadasaksha= twelve-eyes
- Dvadasakara= twelve-hands
- Gangaputra= Son of the Ganga
- Guha
- Kumara= the Boy
- Mahasena
- Murugan
- Rijukaya
- Sarabhu
- Skanda
- Subramanya
- Swaminatha
- Trakajit
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