[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 14.0.p28 # Skandapurana 14.0.p28 Skandapurāṇa 14.0.p28 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [14.0.p28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.0.p28) adhyāyaḥ 29 mṛgayāsaktena suprabhanṛpatinā bālaṃ stanaṃ dhayaṃtīṃ mṛgīṃ prati bāṇena vedhakaraṇam, tato mṛgyā rājñe raudravyāghro bhaviṣyasi iti śāpapradānam, tatkāla eva rājño vyāghratvaprāptiḥ, tatraivāraṇye gokulato bhraṣṭāyāḥ kasyāścitkapilānāmnyā gorāga-manam, vyāghrakapilayoḥ saṃvādavarṇanam, tataḥ kapilayā vyāghrasamīpe śapathaṃ kṛtvā svasthānaṃ goṣṭhaṃ gatvā dugdhaṃ bālāya pāyayitvā vatsāya vanagatavṛttāntaṃ śrāvayitvā vanametuṃ vatsāgrahaṃ dṛṣṭvā tato vatsasya nivāraṇaṃ kṛtvā svasakhīḥ pratyetya sarvaṃ kathayitvā sakhībhirvyāghrasannidhau gantuṃ nivāritayāpi tayā sakhīvacanamavamanya vyāghrasamīpe pratyāgamanam, goḥ satyavaktrītvaṃ dṛṣṭvā vismayotphullamānasenavyāghreṇa gave jīvadānam, suprabhasya śāpānmuktiḥ, tasyaiva sthānasya kapilātīrthetināmnā prasiddhiḥ, kapilātīrthamāhātmyavarṇanam > Chapter 29: King Suprabha, addicted to hunting, striking with an arrow a doe suckling her young; then the doe cursing the king, saying, 'You shall become a fierce tiger'; at that very moment the king becoming a tiger; the coming into that very forest of a certain cow named Kapilā who had strayed from the cow-herd; description of the dialogue between the tiger and Kapilā; then Kapilā, having made an oath before the tiger, went to her own place, the cow-pen, suckled her young with milk, narrated the forest event to her calf, saw the calf's insistence on going to the forest, dissuaded the calf, went to her female friends, told everything, and though dissuaded by her friends from going near the tiger, disregarded her friends' words and returned near the tiger; seeing the truthfulness of the cow, the tiger, with a heart blossoming with wonder, granted life to the cow; Suprabha was freed from the curse; the renown of that very place by the name Kapilātīrtha; description of the māhātmya of the Kapilātīrtha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 14.0.p27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.0.p27) - [Next: 14.0.p29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.0.p29) - [Up: 14.0](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.0) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.0.p28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.0.p28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.0.p28) · Pramāṇa