Elements of Hindu Iconography v4.c26.7

v4.c26.7

The wives of the six rishis who were discarded on suspicion by their husbands repaired to Skanda and complained to him that they were unjustly abandoned by their husbands and consequently became degraded from their former position and entreated him to secure for them heaven (svarga). Skanda granted them their desire and kept them with him. Svāhā then approached Skanda and informed him that she was his genuine mother and then told him that from her childhood she loved Agni but that her love was unrequited by him and desired that she should somehow be made to live perpetually with Agni. Skanda conferred this boon upon her saying that whatever oblations of brāhmanas was introduced by hymns, they should always lift it and throw it in the fire saying ‘Svāhā’ and that Agni should dwell continually with her.