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(when they went to bathe in the Gangā), each of whom therefore conceived and brought forth a son. But these six sons were afterwards mysteriously combined into one of extraordinary form with six heads and twelve hands and eyes. Hence he is called Kārttikeya, Şaļānana, şanmukha, etc. According to another account the seed of Siva was cast by the Gangā into a thicket of reeds (Śara); whence the boy was called Saravanabhava or Sarajanman. He was the commander of the army of the gods in their war with Tāraka, a powerful demon, whom he vanquished and slew. He is represented as riding a peacock. Sauri : a patronymic (of Vasudeva as well as) of Vişnu-Krsna. Koțțavī : “Koțavī, Koțarī, Koțțavī. “A naked woman'. A mystical goddess, the tutelary deity of the Daityas, and mother of Bāņa the demon. The name is sometimes applied to Durgā”. Triśiras : "Three-headed'. Fever personified as a demon with three heads. Caturbhuja : (Visnu or Krsna), name of a Dānava, here the name of Four-armed Fever created by Vişnu-Krsna. Śiti-kantha : dark-necked as Rudra-Śiva. Cf.Nilakantha : blue-necked; name of Śiva as having black throat from swallowing the poison produced at the churning of the ocean. Viriñca : Name of Brahmā (but also applied to Visnu and Siva)
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