Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

Hello Vairam

In your explanation, the thunderbolt is wielded by Muruga and atop
airavatham.

Here are some facts, Indra was the vahanam (peacock) prior to the Lord
granting that role to Suran.
Airavatham's daughter is deva Kunjari (devayanai), an incarnate of
Laxmi.
When Indra offers himself as a vahana for the Lord, obviously, the
posessions come under Muruga's asset management system.

Suran, after the war, is not annihilated. He is infact taken over as
the Flag and Vehicle, a feat that is performed by Lord Vishnu on his
enemies.

There is a lot more indepth to the Anubuthi, it takes a long deep look
into how the master of words Guru Arunagiri has invoked the string of
sentences and his choice of words too.

It has to be read in sequence. How the mapping happens vs what in
essence the anubuthi is, that is extremely critical in getting the
knowledge inside.

If I were to put it in a nutshell, anubuthi is bhagavat gita's essence
in 51 verses in comparitively simple tamil.

Hi Ravi,
After your reply , I went through all old Sanskitic sources of
Skanda Myth.
My understanding here is in a historical point of view not in a
philosophical point of view.
All Murugan Myths can be classified as pre Sangam Myths and Post
Sangam myths. There is vast difference between these two myths. One
feature of the post sangam myths are that it is an amalgamation of the
southern myths with the northern ones.
Saying that , the pre sangam sanskritic myths are basically from
Ramayan and Mahabaratha. There are diff Skanda Myth version in Ramyana
as well as Mahabartha. Even though both these literature were written
much earlier there were lot of interpolations and final version was
compiled some time during 2-3rd AD in the Gupta Period. A period close
to Tamil Sangam ages.

The earliest Skanda myth occording to scholars occur in MahabarathaIII
223-232.
In this myth Agni is father of Skanda. Indra tries to slays him and he
attacks with his vajra but it only cuts slice of Skanda's right side
and hence a new god Viska is born out of those parts and becomes part
of Skanda's army. He defeats Indra and Skanda is offered the post of
Indra but he declines. He is then married to Deva Sena. Here there is
no reference that Devasena is daughter of Indra. There is actually a
refernce earlier that wife of Indra was Sena.

Ramayana- Balakanda chapter 36-37
There is no reference of his marriage or any gifts.

Mahabaratha 9th book chapter 46 - 47
This has the first reference that Skanda recived gifts form the gods,
Indra gives Dart and banner(probably vajra was the dart)
Siva - army of 30,000
Sun - cock
aruna - charioteer
Garuda - peacock
varuna - snake
ganga - amirta
Brahma - black deer skin

Mahabaratha 13th book chapter 84-86
Here also there is specific references to gifts,
Garuda- peacock
Aruna - cock
Agni - ram
moon - goat
Varuna gives lot of animals - lion, tiger , including an elephant.

Other than this Kumarasambhava is only other imp. Skanda myth. But
dating of kalidasa is around 3-6th century. Which is after Tamil
sangam age. Hence there are lot of probability for influence of
southern myth.

In all these northern myth, there is no exclusive reference with
Skanda having an elephant as vahana. But there seems to be lot of
alluded references that He might have had the Thunderbolt , vajra as
his weapon.

But in Sangam literature there are many exclusive references that
Murugan's vahana was elephant. eg. Kurunthokai 1.

The myth you have listed might have been a later literature so it
would be extremely important to know the source of the myth you have
listed and the dating of the myth.