Skandapurana 4.83.75.2

4.83.75.2

samuccarannimaṃ maṃtraṃ vratakṛnmithunaṃ mudā .. 15 ..
namo viśvavidhānajñe vidhe vividhakāriṇi ..
sutaṃ vaṃśakaraṃ dehi tuṣṭāmuṣmādvratācchubhāt .. 16 ..
sahasaṃ bhojayitvātha dvijānāṃ bhaktipūrvakam ..
bhuktaśeṣeṇa cānnena kuryādvai pāraṇaṃ tataḥ .. 17 ..
itthametadvrataṃ rājaṃścikīrṣāmi tvayā saha ..
kuru caitatpriyaṃ mahyamabhīṣṭaphalalabdhaye .. 18 ..
iti bhūpālavaryeṇa śrutvā saṃhṛṣṭacetasā ..
muneva taṃ samācīrṇaṃ sāṃtarvatnī babhūva ha .. 19 ..
tayātha prārthitā gaurī garbhiṇyā bhaktitoṣitā ..
putraṃ dehi mahāmāye sākṣādviṣṇvaṃśasaṃbhavam .. 4.2.83.20 ..
jātamātro vrajetsvargaṃ punagayāti cātra vai ..
bhaktaḥ sadāśive'tyarthaṃ prasiddhaḥ sarvabhūtale ..21..
vinaiva stanyapānena ṣoḍaśābdākṛtiḥ kṣaṇāt ..
evaṃbhūtaḥ suto gauri yathā me syāttathākuru ..22..
mṛḍānyāpi tathetyuktā rājñī bhaktyātituṣṭayā ..
atha kālena tanayaṃ mūlarkṣe sāpyajījanat .. 23 ..
hitairamātyairatha sā vijñaptāriṣṭasaṃsthitā ..
devi rājārthinī cettvaṃ tyaja duṣṭarkṣajaṃ sutam .. .. 24 ..
sā maṃtrivākyamākarṇya kevalaṃ patidevatā ..
atyākṣīttaṃ tathā prāptaṃ tanayaṃ nayakovidā .. 25 ..
dhātreyikāṃ samākārya prāhedaṃ sā nṛpāṃganā ..
paṃcamudre mahāpīṭhe vikaṭā nāma mātṛkā .. 26 ..
tadagre sthāpayitvāmuṃ bālaṃ dhātreyike vada ..
gauryādattaḥ śiśurasau tavāgre viniveditaḥ .. 27 ..
rājñyā patyuḥ priyeṣiṇyā maṃtrivijñaptinunnayā ..
sāpi rājñyuditaṃ śrutvā śiśuṃ lāsya śaśiprabham .. 28 ..
vikaṭāyāḥ puraḥ sthāpya gṛhaṃ dhātreyikā gatā ..
atha sā vikaṭā devī samāhūya ca yoginīḥ .. 29 ..

The couple, performing the vow, should gladly pronounce this mantra: / 15
“Obeisance to you who know the regulation of the universe, O Ordainer, who bring about diverse things! / Pleased by this auspicious vow, grant a son who will continue the lineage.” / 16
Then, having fed thousands of brahmins with devotion, / one should indeed break the fast with the remainder of the eaten food. / 17
In this manner, O king, I wish to perform this vow along with you; / grant me this pleasure so that I may obtain the desired fruit.” / 18
Having heard this, the best of kings, his heart delighted, / observed it as a sage would, and indeed she became pregnant. / 19
Then Gaurī, pleased by devotion, was besought by the pregnant queen: / “Grant a son, O Mahāmāyā, who is directly born of a portion of Viṣṇu! / 20
As soon as he is born, let him go to heaven, and indeed come back here again; / exceedingly devoted to Sadāśiva, well-known over the entire surface of the earth; / 21
without drinking breast-milk, instantly having the form of a sixteen-year-old— / O Gaurī, act in such a way that my son will be of such a nature!” / 22
Mṛḍānī, greatly pleased by her devotion, replied to the queen, “So be it!” / Then in due time, she gave birth to a son under the constellation Mūla. / 23
Then she, beset by misfortune, was advised by her well-wishing ministers: / “O queen, if you care for the kingdom, abandon the son born under an evil constellation!” / 24
Hearing the words of the ministers, she, devoted solely to her husband / and skilled in policy, abandoned the son obtained in that manner. / 25
Having summoned a foster-nurse, that royal woman said this: / “In the great seat of the Five Mudrās is the Mother named Vikaṭā. / 26
Placing this child before her, foster-nurse, say: / ‘This infant was given by Gaurī; he is presented before you / 27
by the queen, who desires what is pleasing to her husband, impelled by the advice of the ministers.’” / Having heard what the queen said, she took the infant, radiant as the moon, / 28
and placing him before Vikaṭā, the foster-nurse went home. / Then that goddess Vikaṭā, having summoned the yoginīs, / 29