Skanda, a Hindu deity also known as Kartikeya and Murugan and Subhramanya
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Skanda Purana, a Hindu Purana (Scripture) dedicated to the Deity
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Skandha, which in Buddhist phenomenology and soteriology, are the five "aggregates" which categorize all individual experience.
He has also led the study of the earliest known version of the Skanda Purāṇa preserved in Kathmandu, Nepal.
In 1960s, Shanta Gandhi Professor of Ancient Indian Drama at while at National School of Drama, revived interest in Jaishankar Prasad’s plays for modern Indian theatre, by successfully staging his most important play Skanda Gupta written in 1928, with little changes to the original script, thus quashing doubts over its "stagability".
There is an identical guardian deity of Buddhism, known as Skanda in the Chinese Mahayana Buddhism.
Notable among them were a Chola-era mythological Mavaikuruvanji and Kurunathar Killividudutu a panegyric on the Hindu god Skanda.