Skandapurana 5.192

The seers said: / When Sāvitrī had departed in anger in this way, O son of Sūta, / what was done there by Gāyatrī, and what by the gods headed by Brahmā? / 1

Tell us all this, for our curiosity is indeed great: / how did the gods, struck by curses, remain there in the pavilion? / 2

Sūta said: / When Sāvitrī had departed after giving her curse, O best of brahmins, / Gāyatrī suddenly arose and uttered this statement: / 3

What was spoken by Sāvitrī cannot in any way / be rendered otherwise, even by all the gods and asuras together. / 4

Sāvitrī is a great satī, most fortunate, devoted to her husband, / worshipful to all the gods, the eldest, and the most exalted with good hosts. / 5

Yet this is the nature of all women, O best of gods: / even a thunderbolt strike can be endured, but never mention of a co-wife! / 6

Those brahmins and gods who have been cursed here by Sāvitrī on my account, / for them I myself will make a mitigation according to my power. / 7

This rite accompanied by mantras was declared by her to be devoid of worship / for all castes, beginning with the brahmins, O best of gods. / 8

In all the abodes of Brahmā at this time on the surface of the earth, / no ritual action will attain success without Brahmā. / 9

Whatever merit lies in worshipping Kṛṣṇa, and whatever merit in worshipping the liṅga, / that fruit will always be multiplied ten-millionfold from the darśana of Brahmā; / there is no doubt, especially on all sacred festival days. / 10

And you, O Viṣṇu, were told by her: 'When you attain mortal birth, / there too you will have the state of being a servant to others.' / 11

Having assumed a pair of forms, you will obtain birth there; / in this lineage of mine called the cowherds, of which she spoke, / there, for its purification, you will attain growth for a long time. / 12

One will be named Kṛṣṇa, while the second will be named Arjuna; / of that self of yours named Arjuna, you will act as the charioteer. / 13

Because of that, though delighting in improper deeds, those cowherds will attain praiseworthiness / among all people, and especially among the gods. / 14

Wherever men born of my lineage will dwell, / in every such place will be the abode of Śrī, even in a forest. / 15

O Śakra, as for what was spoken to you by her filled with anger, / that having suffered defeat by your enemy you will fall into a prison: / 16

Brahmā himself will bring about your release by my word. / 17

Thereafter, having entered the battle, you will not meet with defeat. / O Fire, as for your being spoken of by her in her anger as an all-devourer: / 18

Even that which is impure, when touched by your flames ahead, / will quickly attain purity; thereafter you will obtain worship. / 19

The wife named Svāhā will satisfy the gods, / and Svadhā will satisfy all the ancestors, beyond doubt, by my word. / 20

O Rudra, as for the separation from your beloved that was spoken of by her: / another wife, far superior to her, will become yours, / renowned by the name Gaurī, the auspicious daughter of the Himālaya. / 21

Thus ends the one hundred and ninety-third chapter, titled "The Granting of Boons by Gāyatrī," in the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field, in the sixth Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the Skandamahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.