Shiva parivar. in this depiction Ganeshji is portrayed as elder to Kartikeyaji,with His parents parvati Ma and Lord Shiva.Though mostly Kartikeya ji is shown as elder.
A beautiful picture of the Holy Family.Its interesting to note that while pictures by North Indian painters depict Kartikeya as younger, the pictures by south indian artists generally show him as elder.Here Ganesh is clearly the elder, having gotten a hold of His Father's time keeping and rhythm setting Damaru.
But in the shiv purana the very reason for shiv parvati's marriage from the point of view of the devas, is so that their first born son Kartikeya would be born and defeat the demon Tarkasura.Accordingly he has a whole purana, the skanda purana on him. Sri krishna also honours him by saying says i am skanda among warriors.
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