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{{short description|Hindu denomination}}
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| image_caption = Entrance to [[Batu Caves]], Malaysia, with the Lord Murugan statue
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| founder       = none
| religions     = [[Hinduism]]
| scriptures    = ''[[Skanda Purana]]''
| languages     = [[Sanskrit]]{{•}}others
| related-c     = [[Tamils]]{{•}}[[Kannada people|Kannada]]{{•}}[[Vedda]]
| regions       = [[South India]]{{•}}[[Sri Lanka]]
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| website = {{url|kaumaram.com/}}<br>{{url|murugan.org/}}
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{{Kaumaram}}
'''Kaumaram''' is a [[Hindu denominations|Hindu denomination]] that focuses on the deity of love and war ''Kumara'', also known as ''Murugan'' (in [[South India]]), ''Kandan'', or ''Kadamban'', or ''[[Kartikeya]]''. Most devotees of Kumara also revere members of his family: [[Parvati]], [[Shiva]], and [[Ganesha]]. The important theological texts relating to Kumara are a part of the [[Āgama (Hinduism)|Shaiva agama]] canon. This sub-tradition is found among the [[Tamils]], [[Kannada people|Kannada]], [[Vedda]] in South India, Sri Lanka, and among the [[Tamil diaspora]] worldwide.<ref name="Dalal">{{cite book |author=Roshen Dalal |title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC&pg=PA417 |location=New Delhi |publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-14-341421-6 |pages=417–418, 137, 198–199, 241, 425}}</ref> The love story of Kumara/Murugan and his wife [[Valli]], a girl from a local tribe, is immensely popular in [[Tamil Nadu]], where Kumara acquired the status of a national God.<ref name="Zvelebil">{{cite book |author=Kamil V. Zvelebil |chapter=Murugan and Valli |title=Tiru Murugan |location=Madras |publisher=Ulakat Tamilaraycci Niruvanam |year=1981 |pages=40–46 |chapter-url=http://www.murugan.org/research/zvelebil.htm}}</ref>{{refn|group=note|name="term"|The term ''Kaumaram'' also means "childhood, youth" in Hindu texts, as in verse 2.13 of the ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]''.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Winthrop Sargeant |author2=Christopher Key Chapple |title=The Bhagavad Gita: Revised Edition|url=https://archive.org/details/bhagavadgitasuny00chri|url-access=registration |year=1984 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=978-0-87395-831-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bhagavadgitasuny00chri/page/98 98]}}</ref> It is sometimes a substitute for [[Brahmacharya]] stage of life.<ref>{{cite book |author=Suresh Chandra |title=Encyclopaedia of Hindu Gods and Goddesses |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mfTE6kpz6XEC&pg=PA63 |year=1998 |publisher=Sarup & Sons |isbn=978-81-7625-039-9 |page=63}}</ref>}}

==See also==
* [[Arunagirinathar]]
* [[Devasena|Deivayanai]]
* [[Idumban]]
* [[Mayura (mythology)]]
* [[Six Abodes of Murugan]]
* [[Vel]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.murugan.org Murugan devotion] {{in lang|en}}{{in lang|ta}}
*[http://www.kaumaram.com/ Murugan devotion, Temples, Songs, Festivals] {{in lang|ta}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170421005437/http://www.sttemple.com/pages/12~history-of-st-temple ST Temple], Dedicated to Murugan, Singapore

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