Skandapurana 17.20.9

17.20.9

6 cakratīrthayātrāvidhivarṇanam, mṛgavatplavanakāribālādarśanaṃ kṛtamiti kenacidvanapālena bhojarājāya kathanam, tacchrutvā tuṣṭena bhojena tasmai vanapālāya bahudhanadānam, tatastena vanapālena saha tatra vane gatvā bhojena tāṃ mṛgavaktrāṃ bālāṃ gṛhītvā svagṛhe gamanam, tato bhojena tasyai bālāyai mānuṣyaśarīratvamṛgavaktratvaśāpakakāraṇe pṛṣṭe tayā'kathane bhojena viprebhyaḥ praśnakaraṇam, tataḥ sārasvatamaharṣisaṃskatapuroḍāśa-prāśanasamupalabdha spaṣṭavākprasaramṛgānanā kathitobhayaprāksaptajanmavṛttāntavarṇanama, 203 1 7 mṛgānanābhojarājasaṃvāde svotpattivarṇanaprasaṃga uddālakarṣermūtrasarjanāya vanāntare gamanam, tatra tasya vīryabindupatanam, tatraikayā mṛgyoddālakavīryabiṃduprāśanam, tata uddālakānmṛgyāṃ mṛgānanāyāḥ svasyā janmeti bhojāya mṛgānanayā kathanam, dvāra-vatīkurukṣetrādibahutīrthakṣetramāhātmyavarṇanam, svarṇarekhāyāṃ mṛgānanāyāḥ pūrvajanma-mṛgamukhaprakṣepaṇena divyamukhatvaprāptyuttaraṃ bhojanṛpatipariṇayavṛttāntapūrvakaṃ svarṇa-rekhāmāhātmyavarṇanam ... .. ... ... ... ... 206 1

6 Description of the procedure for pilgrimage to Cakratīrtha; the reporting to King Bhoja by a certain forest-guardian that a young girl leaping like a deer was seen; upon hearing that, the giving of much wealth to that forest-guardian by Bhoja, who was pleased; then, having gone to that forest along with that forest-guardian, Bhoja's capturing that deer-faced girl and going to his own house; then, when Bhoja asked that girl the reason for her curse consisting of a human body and a deer's face, her non-speaking, and Bhoja's asking of the brahmins; then, the description of the account of both their previous seven births recounted by the deer-faced [girl] who obtained clear speech after eating the puroḍāśa offered by the great sage belonging to Sarasvatī. [p.] 203.1 / 7 In the conversation between the deer-faced [girl] and King Bhoja, regarding the occasion of the description of her own origin, the seer Uddālaka's going to another forest to discharge urine; there, the falling of a drop of his semen; there, the drinking of Uddālaka's drop of semen by a female deer; then, the recounting to Bhoja by the deer-faced [girl] of her own birth from Uddālaka through the female deer; description of the māhātmya of many sacred fields and sacred fords such as Dvāravatī and Kurukṣetra; the description of the māhātmya of the Svarṇarekhā preceded by the account of her marriage to King Bhoja following her attainment of a divine face by casting away the previous birth's deer-face into the Svarṇarekhā. [p.] 206.1