Skandapurana 16.367.p23

16.367.p23

21 atha dakṣotpattivṛttāntakathanam, brahmājñayā dakṣeṇa ṣaṣṭikanyānāmutpādanam , tatra tāsāṃ kanyānāṃ dharmādibhyaḥ patnītvena dānam, saptaviṃśatikanyānāṃ ca somāya pradānam , daśadharmapatnīnāṃ nāmavarṇanam, kaśyapasya trayodaśapatnīnāṃ saptaviṃśatisaṃ-khyākānāṃ somapatnīnāṃ bhṛguputrasya dvayoḥ patnyoḥ kṛśāśvasya dvayoḥ patnyosta-thāṃ'girasapatnyornāmādivarṇanapūrvakaṃ tāsāṃ santativarṇanam, candreṇa rohiṇī vinā'nyāsāṃ premā'karaṇena tābhiranyābhiścandrapatnībhirdakṣaṃ prati sarvavṛttāntaśrāvaṇam, tato dakṣeṇa tacchrutvā candrasyānyāsu kanyāsu viṣamabhāvaṃ samālokya krudhā candrāya yakṣmarogaprāptirūpaśāpadānam , tato dakṣavacanāccandreṇa yakṣmakuṣṭharoganivṛttaye śivārādhanakaraṇārthaṃ dakṣiṇasāgarasamīpe gamanam.... ....... 33 2

21. Now, the account of the story of Dakṣa's origin; the production of sixty daughters by Dakṣa by order of Brahmā; therein, the giving of those daughters as wives to Dharma and others, and the giving of twenty-seven daughters to Soma; the description of the names of the ten wives of Dharma, the thirteen wives of Kaśyapa, the twenty-seven wives of Soma, the two wives of Bhṛgu's son, the two wives of Kṛśāśva, and the two wives of Aṅgiras, preceded by the description of their names and so forth, the description of their progeny; the other wives of the Moon narrating the whole story to Dakṣa because the Moon showed no love to the others except Rohiṇī; then, Dakṣa, having heard that and observed the Moon's unequal affection among the other daughters, angrily pronouncing a curse upon the Moon in the form of contracting the disease of consumption; then, by Dakṣa's instruction, the Moon going near the southern ocean in order to worship Śiva for the cessation of the diseases of consumption and leprosy... 33 2