Matsyapurana 159.1

159.1

*sūta uvāca
vāmaṃ vidārya niṣkrāntaḥ suto devyāḥ punaḥ śiśuḥ
skandācca vadane vahneḥ śukrātsuvadano 'rihā //

Sûta said—Before the fair faced Kumâra, the destroyer of the foes, was born, he was effused in the form of semen in the mouth of the fire, afterwards he came out of the left belly of the Devî The Krittikâs joined together with him after his birth and the six heads were fixed to the six trunks, for these reasons he is known as Skanda, Viṣakha, Saṇmukha, and Kârtikeya—1 3

Sûta said:—Before the fair faced Kumâra, the destroyer of the foes, was born, he was effused in the form of semen in the mouth of the fire, afterwards he came out of the left belly of the Devî The Kṛitikâs joined together with him after his birth and the six heads were fixed to the six trunks, for these reasons he is known as Skanda, Viśâkha, Saṇmukha, and Kârtikeya.—1-3