The
Skanda Purana is the largest Mahāpurāṇa, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious
texts.The text contains over 81,000 verses, and is of Kaumara literature,
titled after Skanda, a son of Shiva and Parvati, who is also known as
Kartikeya and Murugan. While the text is named after Skanda, he does not
feature either more or less prominently in this text than in other
Shiva-related Puranas. The text has been an important historical record and
influence on the Hindu traditions related to the war-god Skanda. |