A pantheonic scroll of the Koreans from the Haein-Sa temple from 1862 CE depicting 124 deities being derived in part from the Hindu pantheon. The two prominent identical looking deities in this section are brahman (left) & indra (right) 
The next section of scroll prominently depicts rudra (left): 3 heads holding trishUla&moon keeping with old iconography; rAjarAja (right) holding moon& sun. skanda center with lance. Known as Tongjin Posal or Wit'aechon in Korean the kaumAra tradition emerged from in east Asia
Daoxuan lüshi gantong lu, where the chInAchArya Daoxuan in the early 600s presented a peculiar narrative of the "conversion" of skanda to the nAstika heresy & as a deity whom the chIna bauddha-s must hold as their ideal. He is said to have miraculously appeared to the chIna &
revealed to him that their nAstika-mata was superior to the Indian one. Daoxuan is clearly mentioned by the chIna-s as having the seen the deity who is the general of the gods & has a child like form.
The lowermost panel of the Korean scroll of 124 deities
one of the chIna versions of the suvarNaprabhAsasUtra preserves an interesting protective spell for the readers of the sUtra (translated from the chIna by Li Xinjie; not there in public Sanskrit version):
Possessed of miraculous power
and great strength
indra, soma and yama,
vAyu, varuNa and *skanda*
viShNu and sarasvatI
prajApati and hutAshana
these protectors of the worlds
who are powerful and outshine every foe
day and night will offer protection without fail
and great strength
indra, soma and yama,
vAyu, varuNa and *skanda*
viShNu and sarasvatI
prajApati and hutAshana
these protectors of the worlds
who are powerful and outshine every foe
day and night will offer protection without fail
skanda was the 1 of the deities (other being vaishravaNa) from old H pantheon transmitted via the nAstika cult to the Koreans who was also incorporated into the Korean shamanistic pantheon. (2nd deity central column in the iconography of Daoxuan); from Sujung Kim's excellent work
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