Skanda poorvajar

 

We have come to the last name. Skanda poorvajam comes last in the 16 names. It means that he is elder brother of subramanya. He is elder to him. More than that, it is nice to call him, the one ahead of subramanya.

 

Poorvajar means the one born earlier. We also call Agrajar.

 

Like the Tamil word "udan pirappu" in Sanskrit we call "sahodarar"- to mention siblings -- saha means "together" when we say sahodarar or udan pirappu we cannot find whether elder or younger brother. Elder brother is known by the word agrajar. Similar the young brother is known by the word anujar. Ramanujar means the younger brother of Rama, or lakshmana. In the amara, subramanyar has a name gajamuka anujar. Subramanya has a name as the younger brother of lord vigneswarar. So the lord vigneswarar is also called as the elder brother of subramanyar. Such a brotherly feeling.