The present work, Karttikeya in Indian Art and Literature, is based mainly on the Ph.D. thesis approved by the University ofPatna in 1977. In this work, an attempt has been made to make a detailed study of the cult of Karttikeya in ancient India for filling up the gap in knowledge of the development of the cult of the god which has not been treated in detail by the previous authors on the subject. For the study, both literary and archaeological sources have been ...
