स्कन्द

{ skandḥ, skanda }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

SKANDA   Subrahmaṇya. (For further details see under Subrahmaṇya).

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : कार्तिकेय, स्कन्द उपनिषद्

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

स्कन्द  m.  m. anything which jumps or hops (in तृण-स्कन्द॑, ‘grasshopper’, N. of a man), [RV.]
अ   spurting, effusing, effusion, spilling, shedding ( cf. and घ्रण-स्क्°)
perishing, destruction, [Gīt.]
quick-silver, [L.]
-ग्रह   ‘Attacker’, N. of कार्त्तिकेय ( q.v., son of शिव or of अग्नि; he is called god of war as leader of शिव's hosts against the enemies of the gods ; he is also leader of the demons of illness that attack children [ cf.], also god of burglars and thieves; cf. -पुत्र and, [IW. 427 n. 1]), [MaitrS.]; [MBh.] &c.

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ग्रह

N. of शिव, [MBh.]
a king prince, [L.]
स्कन्ध   a clever or learned man ( cf.), [L.]
the body, [L.]
जादि   the ( pl. [Saṃskārak.])

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

स्कन्दः [skandḥ]   [स्कन्द्-अच्]
Leaping.
Quicksilver.
 N. N. of Kārtikeya; सेनानीनामहं स्कन्दः [Bg.1.24;] [R.2.] 36;7.1; [Me.45.]
 N. N. of Śiva.
The body.
A king.
The bank of a river.
A clever man.
A kind of disease common to children.
Effusion, spilling.
Perishing, destruction. -Comp.
-अंशकः   quicksilver.
-जननी  N. N. of Parvatī.
-जित्  N. N. of Viṣṇu.-पुत्रः a son of Skanda (euphemistic term for a thief); प्रथममेतत् स्कन्दपुत्राणां सिद्धिलक्षणम् [Mk.3.12] /13.
-पुराणम्   one of the 18 Purāṇas.
-मातृ  f. f. N. of Durgā.
षष्ठी a festival in honour of Kārtikeya on the sixth day of Chaitra.
The 6th day of the light half of the कार्तिक month.

Shabda-Sagara

स्कन्द  m.  ( -न्दः)
1. SKANDA, or KĀRTIKEYA, the son of ŚIVA, and military deity of the Hindus.
2. A king, a prince.
3. The body.
4. The bank of a river.
5. A clever or learned man.
E. स्कन्द् to go, (to fly before whom; the enemies of the gods,) and अच् aff.

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स्कन्द् अच्