Skandapurana 16.308.6

16.308.6

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
ḍiṃḍi rūpaḥ purā devi bhūtvā'haṃ dāruke vane ..
ṛṣīṇāmāśrame puṇye nagno bhikṣācaro'bhavam ..
bhikṣaṃtamāśrame dṛṣṭvā tāḥ sarvā ṛṣiyoṣitaḥ .. 6 ..

Īśvara said: / In ancient times, O goddess, having assumed the form of a naked mendicant (ḍiṇḍi) in the Dāruka forest, / I wandered as an ascetic gathering alms in the holy hermitage of the seers. / Seeing me begging in the hermitage, all those wives of the seers // 6