Kartikeya Temple, Pehowa

Kartikeya Temple
Kartikeya Temple, Pehowa
Religion
AffiliationHinduism
DistrictKurukshetra
DeityKartikeya
FestivalsSarasvati Mahotsav, Maha Shivaratri
Location
LocationPehowa
StateHaryana
CountryIndia
Kartikeya Temple, Pehowa is located in Haryana
Kartikeya Temple, Pehowa
Shown within Haryana
Kartikeya Temple, Pehowa is located in India
Kartikeya Temple, Pehowa
Kartikeya Temple, Pehowa (India)
Geographic coordinates29°59′N 76°35′E / 29.98°N 76.58°E / 29.98; 76.58
Architecture
TypeNagara style
Temple(s)1

Kartikeya Temple is a Hindu temple in Pehowa township of the North Indian state of Haryana is one of the oldest Karthikeya temple in North India. Kartikeya is a popular Hindu deity in India and is worshiped across the length and breadth of the country. Like most Hindu deities, He is known by many other names, including Murugan, Senthil, Saravaṇa, Arumugam or Shanmukha (meaning 'one with six faces'), Kumāra (meaning 'child or son'), Guha, Skanda (meaning 'that which is spilled or oozed, namely seed' in Sanskrit).[1]

The Kushanas, who governed from what is today Peshawar, and the Yaudheyas, a republican clan in the Punjab, stuck coins bearing the image of Skanda. The deity was venerated also by the Ikshvakus, an Andhra dynasty, and the Guptas.[2]

  1. ^ Clothey p.49 Skanda is derived from the verb skanḍr meaning "to attack, leap, rise, fall, be spilled, ooze"
  2. ^ Ratna Navaratnam ; Karttikeya, the divine child:the Hindu testament of wisdom published in 1973 by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan