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स्कन्दशक्रसमागम (skandazakrasamAgama)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Skanda-Śakra-samāgama(ḥ)]
(“meeting of Skanda with Indra”).--§ 499 (cf. Skandotp.). The planets (grahāḥ) and upagrahas (see BR.), Mātṛs and the gaṇas of the parishads preceded by Fire and other terrible gods waited on Skanda. Indra, with the hosts of the gods approached, mounted on Airāvata, in order to kill him. But Skanda defeated them by flames, and when Indra pierced his right side with his thunderbolt, thence sprang forth an armed youth Viśākha (vajra-viśanād jāto, v. 14384), and Indra and the gods sought and obtained the protection of Skanda (III, 227).