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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.36.26

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 36: Story of Gaṅgā & Umā: Kārttikeya’s birth and six nurses. Gaṅgā releases Agni’s unbearable embryo onto the mountain, its radiance produces minerals and six Kṛttikās nurse the child who becomes the Devas’ commander

In the sequence: seeing him blazing amid the birth-flow, they also call him Skanda because he has oozed forth, skanna

1.36.26

teṣāṃ tad vacanaṃ śrutvā skannaṃ garbhaparisrave
snāpayan parayā lakṣmyā dīpyamānam ivānalam

Hearing that speech of theirs, (they beheld the child) fallen amid the birth-flow, bathed in supreme splendour, blazing like fire.

Words: teṣāṃ — their, of them; tad — that; vacanaṃ — speech; śrutvā — having heard; skannaṃ — fallen, oozed forth; garbhaparisrave — in the flow of the womb (loc.); snāpayan — bathing, washing; parayā — with supreme; lakṣmyā — splendour, beauty; dīpyamānam — blazing, shining; ivānalam — like fire

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.