Kartikeya Temple, Pehowa

Sthala katha — the traditional account

What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.

The Skanda Purana account followed here has Kartikeya born of the fire of Shiva's third eye, carried by Agni and Ganga, reared by the six Pleiades in a reed thicket and grown to six faces before slaying the demon Taraka.