Markandeyapurana 23.70

23.70

samutpatsyati kalyāṇī tathārūpā yathāmṛtā /
etacchrutvā tatastau tu praṇipatya maheśvaram //

will arise, an auspicious lady, having the very form she had before dying.' / Hearing this, the two bowed low to Maheśvara,

Śiva spoke:
“As thou hast spoken, most noble Nāga, it shall all happen through my favour, in very truth. Hearken also to this, O Nāga. But when the śrāddha is reached, thou shouldst eat the middle piṇḍa by thyself, most noble Nāga, being pure, and having thy mind subdued; and then, when that is eaten, the happy lady shall rise out of thy middle hood, the same in form as when she died. And having pondered on this thy desire, do thou perform the libation to the piṭris; immediately she, the fine-browed, the auspicious, shall rise out of thy breathing middle hood, the same in form as when she died.”

Having heard this, both then adored Śiva, and returned, full of contentment, to Rasātala. And so the Nāga, Kambala’s younger brother, performed the śrāddha, and also duly ate the middle piṇḍa; and, while he pondered on that his desire, the slender-waisted lady was produced[24] at once, in the selfsame form, out of his breathing middle hood. And the Nāga told that to no one: he kept her, the lovely-teethed one, concealed by his women in the inner apartments.

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rasātalaṃ punaḥ prāptau paritoṣasamanvitau /

and returned to Rasātala filled with contentment.