Markandeya Purana 76.15

76.15

svārtho mayā parityakto yastvatto me bhaviṣyati /
ityuktvā sā tamutsṛjya niṣkrāntā sūtikāgṛhāt //

The mother spoke:
“It is not for the sake of a benefit that I embrace thee lovingly, my darling, nor shall I be deprived of thee, if this shall be for thy pleasure.[9] I have note relinquished any self-interest which shall accrue to me from thee.”[10]

So saying she left him and went out of the lying-in house. The hag Jātahāriṇī then seized him when left, his body and external organs of sense being apathetic, his heart and soul pure. Having seized the boy she placed him then as a newborn child on the bed of king Vikrānta’s wife, and took his new-born son and carried him[11] to another house, and taking a son from that house she, Jātahāriṇī, in regular course devoured this third child. Now carrying children off in succession she devours the third child, totally devoid of pity; but she makes a substitution thus with the other two day after day.