Upendra (Vaaman Avataar), one of the Avataar of Vishnu, once went to Vaikunth to have Darshan of Vishnu, and Lakshmee. When the three were in the hall, a great sage, Kanv Rishi, came in. To the great disappointment and chagrin of the sage, he was neither welcomed nor paid the usual respects by any one of the three who were there. In a rage he cursed them - "Vishnu, You be born as a dumb sage devoted to Shiv for many births; and Lakshmee, You should be born as a deer roaming in deserted forests; and Upendra would be born as a hunter of wild game. To mitigate the severity of the curse, Vishnu did rigorous Tapas for Shiv. Shiv appeared before Him and, knowing the purpose for which his devotee was performing the Tapas, called Kanv Rishi and asked him to reduce the period of his curse from ‘many births’ to one birth. This was duly done; all the three were to be restored to their original states on the occasion of marriage of Skand and Vallee.

Vishnu thereafter came to the world as Shivamuni, a dumb saint, and was living in a forest. In the same forest, Upendra wandered about as a hunter, and Lakshmee was roaming as a deer in the same forest. As preordained, the sage Shivamuni saw the beautiful deer and, strangely enough, felt passionate and agitated. The deer returned the love which the sage had evinced to her at sight. The sequel was that the deer delivered a human child, a girl. Seeing the child so different from herself, the deer abandoned the child to its fate and quitted the forest. Upendra, now in the form of a hunter, happened to arrive at the spot where the child was crying in a cluster of Vallee Kodee (a sort of creeper). He took up the child and, calling her Vallee as she was found in a Vallee Kodee, brought her up in a manner befitting his station in life.

Kaarttikeya Meets Vallee - Devarshi Naarad now reminded Kaarttikeya about his meeting with Sundar Vallee in Kailaash and informed him that she had been born as Vallee, the daughter to Nambiraajan, the King of a hill tribe in South India. He also told him that Vallee was doing Tapas to marry him. So Kaarttikeya left for the hills, Vallee’s home. Disguised as a hunter, he saw the maid who was driving off the birds that were destroying the corn in the fields. He presented himself before her in the field and enquired of her whether any deer had come that way. The maid replied in the negative and took him to task for violating the proprieties by talking to a stranger maid in the manner in which he had done, when she was unchaperoned.

But the hunter replied to her only by a contemptuous and defiant laugh. Enraged at this rude behavior of the hunter, Vallee cried out to her brothers for help. The unabashed hunter proceeded to ask her to marry him on the spot and added that the main purpose of his coming to her was only to do so. In response to the cry of Vallee, her seven brothers came running to the spot with their retinue where the hunter and Vallee were. To the mystification and amazement of Vallee and to the disappointment of the brothers, the mischievous hunter transformed himself into a big tree. Thinking that it was only a childish prank of Vallee, they all went back, as they were unable to find any person in the vicinity except an innocent tree. As soon as their backs were turned, the tree reassumed the shape of the hunter, but he was unceremoniously driven out at the point of a stick by Vallee. After a while Vallee saw a tired and tottering old man coming towards her.

Taking pity on him and on his helplessness, she offered him some fruits and water. The old man, while partaking of the offerings, made a proposal of marriage to her. This only provoked an amused and contemptuous smile from Vallee's face, but she informed the old man politely that she had taken a vow to marry none but Kaarttikeya. At this juncture, to the terror of Vallee who had a dread of elephants, an elephant came rushing towards where they were standing. Frightened out of her wits, she ran towards the old man and fell into his arms for protection and safety.

Lord Ganesh to Rescue His Brother -  When the old man had got Vallee’s assurance that she would marry him only, mysteriously sent the elephant away. Now that all danger was over, Vallee treated the whole matter lightly and refused to keep up her promise: she argued that to frighten a girl and get a promise out of her in that condition was unfair and that morally she was not bound by such a promise at all. No sooner were these words out of her mouth than the dreaded elephant came charging again. Her terror was so acute that she willingly and solemnly had to promise to marry the old man, if only he would send the awful elephant away out of her sight. At the same moment, to her great astonishment and joy, she saw before her Kaarttikeya with the Vel in his hand, exactly where the old man had stood courting her in such a strange fashion. Vallee apologized to him for her silly conduct and begged for his grace. Very much pleased with the intensity of her devotion, he accepted her as his consort.

News of her meeting with a hunter and an old man spread far and wide in the neighboring villages. Taking the hunter to be a vagabond, her father and brothers came up to Vallee’s abode to knock some sense into that impudent scoundrel. Kaarttikeya who had again taken the form of a hunter, by a flourish of his Vel, burnt them all to ashes. But at the request of Vallee, they were again brought back to life. Realizing the fact that he was none but Kaarttikeya they all prostrated themselves before him and begged for his mercy. The wedding of Vallee was celebrated in the presence of Devarshi Naarad.

“Thus, to protect the good and to punish the wicked, Shiv came down taking the form and name of Kaarttikeya. With the peacock as his Vaahan, the cock for the emblem on his banner and with Vel in his hand, Kaarttikeya took his abode in the Skand Hills, where he lived with his consorts Vallee and Deivayanaai.”

Glory to Lord Subrahmanya, Glory to his consorts Vallee and Deivayanaai, Glory to the Divine Weapon Velayudh, Glory to the peacock, the Vaahan of Skand, Glory to the cock on his banner, Glory to Lord Shiv by whose grace everything is done, Glory to all who read and hear this story of Lord Subrahmanya and his Leelaa. May the blessings of Lord Shanmukh be upon all.