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Mahabharata
The great epic; its Vana, Shalya and Anushasana Parvas tell Kartikeya's birth, the Vana Parva the hunter's duel with Arjuna and the Markandeya cycle. Ganguli's translation is public domain but sacred-texts could not be fetched.
Sources: Kartikeya — Wikipedia; Kiratarjuniya — Wikipedia; The Mahabharata, tr. K. M. Ganguli (1883–96) — sacred-texts · see Mahabharata's web