[Advaita-l] Regarding Introduction Panchayatan to Shanmata

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Namaste.
Check the article given by Subramanian sir. It contains various statments
from bhasyas of acharya and puranas to show that skanda can be worshipped
as isvara.

On Tue, 7 Mar, 2023, 1:11 pm sammit khandeparker, <justsammit at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I think we are moving away from the discussion on 5 to 6. Has anyone found
> Bhagwadpad explaining why he introduced shanamata? Dhanywad
>
> Dr. Sammit P. S. Khandeparkar
> PhD(Religious Studies)
>
>
> On Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 12:43:40 PM GMT+5:30, Kaushik Chevendra <
> chevendrakaushik at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Namaste
>
>
> Hare Krishna
>
>  No mention about  skanda  in skanda purAna only shiva and vishNu !!??? I
> just wonder.
>
> Have i said there is no mention? I have said that the "majority" of
> stories or sections contain harihara mahamatya. The purana occurs as a
> conversation between hara and skanda.
> This is a bit odd because in the Shiva purana the praise of Shiva is
> higher and in Vishnu purana the praise of Vishnu is higher. But in the
> skanda the majority is praise of Shiva/Vishnu. That's what I meant.
>
>   However, in taittireeya AraNyaka aruNa prashna we have the name of
> subraHmaNya and in Rigveda mantra also we can find the names like kumAra,
> subramaNya etc.
>
> I doubt they are referring to the Shiva Parvati suta skanda. But i may be
> wrong.
>
> in sarpa sambandhita sUkta-s.
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> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
>
> bhaskar
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> *Bhaskar YR*
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> *From:* Kaushik Chevendra <chevendrakaushik at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 7, 2023 9:54 AM
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> *Cc:* sammit khandeparker <justsammit at yahoo.com>; V Subrahmanian <
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> "And he is easy to be recognized as one of the main deities since there is
> a purANA (skanda purANa) dedicated to him exclusively"
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> Actually in the skanda Purana the majority of glorification is of Shiva
> and Vishnu. There is a complete section of Vishnu mahamatya and the
> remaining consists of Shiva mahamatya.
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> On Tue, 7 Mar, 2023, 9:28 am Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> Panch-Devatas also are deities for Panch-mahabhutas. So sixth deity is an
> unexplainable addition. If one is to say that such a thing was done to
> integrate skada-worshipping sanatanis then it looks like a superficial
> reason. As it disturbs the integrity of panch
> mahabhutas-panchindriyas-panchdevtas etc."
>
> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> Atleast as per existing practice worshipping Subramanya / kumAra /skanda
> not at all debatable as there is a traditional belief that there is lot of
> stotra-s in the name of subrahmaNya composed by shankara.  Matching saNkhya
> and explaining the significance of deities can be done like sattva rajas
> and tamas for trimurthi-s, shaNmukha kumaara swamy too must be carrying his
> own merits with his six heads for being worshipped by his devotees.  I read
> somewhere he is the destroyer of arishadvarga and he has to be worshipping
> in all R~tus (shadR~utus) and he is the personification of ishwaratva
> (surasainyanAthaM), karuNa, tapa, Ishwarya, jnaana and vairagya. There must
> be something more if we search the significance of subrahmaNya in the
> hindu’s plethora of gods and goddesses 😊 And he is easy to be recognized
> as one of the main deities since there is a purANA (skanda purANa)
> dedicated to him exclusively.  So worshippers of skanda could see more deep
> and philosophical significance in it.  Just few of my thoughts.
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
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