Shiva is meditating and so get pregnant because of Shiva’s power that percolates into the water. Their husbands accuse them of infidelity and cast them out of the house. They abort the foetuses in their bodies and go into the forest. The aborted foetuses set the forest afire. When the flames die out, the six foetuses merge into a single child — the warlord Skanda also known as Murugan.
