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Īśvara said: / Then, at some time, O dear one, the two gods, the Aśvins, / saw that Sukanyā, who had completed her bath and was unveiled.

Seeing her with lovely limbs, like the daughter of the king of gods, / the two Nāsatyas, the Aśvins, ran up and said:

"Whose [daughter or wife] are you, O fair-thighed one? What do you wish to do in this forest? / We wish to know you. Tell us the truth, O fair one."

Then Sukanyā, covering herself, said to the two best of gods: / "Know me as the daughter of Śaryāti and the wife of Cyavana."

Then the Aśvins laughed and spoke to her again: / "How is it that, with understanding, given by your father, you have come to the forest?

You shine like lightning in the sky! / Indeed, even among goddesses we see none equal to you, O lovely lady!

Endowed with all ornaments, wearing the finest garments! / Do not [remain] thus, O flawless-limbed one; abandon this foolish man!

Why, being of such a kind, do you serve on earth / one worn out by old age and devoid of the capacity for desire, O auspicious one,

incapable of protecting or supporting [you], O sweet-smiling lady? / So you, abandoning Cyavana, choose one of us two

for a husband, O woman resembling the offspring of gods! Do not waste your youth!" / Spoken to thus, that Sukanyā said to the two gods:

"I am devoted to my husband Cyavana; do not doubt thus." / And the two said to her again: "We are the two best physicians of the gods.

We shall make your husband youthful and endowed with beauty; / then choose one of him and the two of us as your husband.

By this agreement, bring us satisfaction, O woman of slender waist!" / At their word, O goddess, she approached the descendant of Bhṛgu / and spoke the word which had been said by the two to the son of Bhṛgu.

To that statement, Cyavana said to his wife: "Let it be accepted!" / Spoken to thus by Cyavana, Sukanyā then indeed said to the two:

"O gods, let what was promised by you be done quickly." / Addressed thus by that Sukanyā, the two physicians / said to that princess: "Let your husband enter the water."

Then Cyavana, desiring beauty, quickly entered the water. / The Aśvins too, O goddess, then entered the water.

Then after a moment they all emerged from that lake, / all having celestial forms, youthful, with polished earrings,

wearing celestial dress, and enhancing delight of the mind. / They all together said: "Choose any one, O fair one!

You are desired by us, O fair lady of excellent complexion! / Or wherever your love lies, choose him, O very beautiful woman!"

Looking upon them all standing endowed with identical forms, / having determined with her mind and intellect, O goddess, she chose her own husband.

Having obtained his wife, and established in youth and beauty, / Cyavana of great splendor, rejoiced, spoke these words to the two Nāsatyas:

"Since, though old, I have been made endowed with beauty and endowed with youth by you, / and have obtained my own wife, / therefore speak! I will accomplish whatever is desired by you two."

The two Aśvins said: / "We are the two physicians of the gods, and Śakra does not grant us / eligibility to drink soma; therefore, make us two drinkers of soma."

Cyavana said: / "I shall make you two drinkers of soma, worthy of a share in the sacrifice."

Īśvara said: / Then, with delighted minds, the two Nāsatyas went to heaven; / Cyavana and Sukanyā also sported like two gods.

Thus ends the two hundred and eighty-first chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Cyavaneśvara', in the first [sub-section], Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].