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Kartikeya
Kartikeya (Sanskrit ''Kārtikēya'' "son of Kṛttikā" Tamil: ''Kārttikēyaṉ'') (), also known as Murugan, Skanda, Kumaran, Kumara Swami and Subramaniya, is the Hindu god of war. He is the Commander-in-Chief of the army of the devas and the son of Shiva and Parvati.
Murugan (Tamil ''Murukaṉ'') is often referred to as ''Tamiḻ kaṭavuḷ'' ("god of the Tamils") and is worshiped primarily in areas with Tamil influences, especially South India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Réunion. His six most important shrines in India are the Six Abodes of Murugan, temples located in Tamil Nadu. In Bengal, Odisha and Maharashtra, he is popularly known as Kartikeya.〔Cage of Freedom By Andrew C. Willford〕
== Other names ==
The several names of Murugan of Tamil origin would include the following, Seyon, Senthil, Vēlaṇ, Kumāran ("prince, child, young one"), Svaminatha ("smart, clever"), Saravaṇa, Arumugam or Shanmuga ("having six faces"), Dandapani ("god with a club"), Guhan or ''Guruguha'' ("cave-dweller"), Subrahmanya, Kartikeya and "attacker".〔Clothey p.49 Skanda is derived from the verb meaning "to attack, leap, rise, fall, be spilled, ooze"〕 He was also known as Mahasena and the Kadamba dynasty worshiped him by this name.
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