Cock flag

The Rooster flag (Sanskrit: कुक्कुटध्वज, romanized: Kukkuṭadhvaja, Tamil: சேவல் கொடி, romanized: Céval koți) is the flag of the Hindu deity Kartikeya, also rendered Skanda,[1] and Murugan in Tamil tradition.

The deity Murugan is depicted with the divine spear vel in one hand and the rooster flag in the other in his iconography.

After Surapadman had assumed the form of a tree, Murugan used his spear to split the asura into two.

These halves became a peacock, which Murugan took as his mount, and a rooster, which he adopted as his flag.

[3][4] In the Mahabharata, the rooster is offered as the emblem of Skanda by Agni before his battle with Tarakasura.