Shri Kartikeya (also called Kumara, Shanmukha, Skanda, Subrahmanya, Velan, or Murugan) represents the highest state to which a spiritual aspirant can evolve. His weapon is a lance of dazzling brilliance, with which this commander of the army of the devas (celestials) vanquished the demon Taraka. Our Temple’s Shri Kartikeya was donated, as part of the Shiva Parivar group, by Manohar and Lokeshwari Naga in 1994.