Skandapurana 2.7.21.31

2.7.21.31

paścāttenaiva doṣeṇa sadyo'lpāyurvinaṣṭadhīḥ ..
sannipātena pañcatvaṃ prāpto'haṃ ca pare dine..16..
taptasīsajalaiḥ pūrṇaṃ nirayaṃ ca halāhalam..
prāpya bhuktvā yātanāṃ ca manvantāni caturdaśa..17..
yukteṣvatha ca lakṣeṣu tathā caturaśītibhiḥ ..
kramādyoniṣu jāto'hamidānīṃ cāvasandrume..18..
daśayojanavistīrṇe śatayojanamunnate..
vyālo'haṃ tāmasaḥ krūraḥ saptayojanakoṭare..19..
bhūtvā vasāmi viprarṣe karmaṇā bādhitaḥ purā ..
ayutaṃ ca samā yātā nirāhārasya koṭare.. 2.7.21.20..
daivāttava mukhāṃbhojasamīritakathāmṛtam ..
śrutvā cakṣurdvayenāhaṃ sadyo dhvastāśubho mune..21..
vyālayoniṃ visṛjyā'haṃ divyarūpadharaḥ pumān..
prāṃjaliḥ praṇato bhūtvā pādau te śaraṇaṃ gataḥ..22..
kasmiñjanmani tvaṃ badhurna jāne munisattama ..
na mayopakṛtaṃ kvā'pi sānukampaḥ kutaḥ satām ..23..
sādhūnāṃ samacittānāṃ sadā bhūtadayāvatām ..
paropakāraprakṛtirna caiṣāmanyathā matiḥ ..24..
māmadyānugṛhāṇa tvaṃ yathā dharme matirbhavet ..
na bhūyādvismṛtiḥ kvā'pi viṣṇordevasya cakriṇaḥ ..25..
mahatāṃ sādhuvṛttānāṃ saṃga tiśca sadā bhavet..
dāridyamekameva syānmadāṃdhaparamāṃjanam ..26..
iti taṃ bahudhā stutvā praṇamya ca punaḥ punaḥ..
prāṃjaliḥ praṇatastasthau tūṣṇīmeva tadagrataḥ..27..
śaṃkho dorbhyāṃ samutthāpya pūrṇapremapariplutaḥ..
pasparśa pāṇinā cāṃgaṃ śaṃtamena gatādhvasaḥ ..28..
cakre so'nuhgrahaṃ tasmindivyarūpadhare dvije ..
prāha taṃ kṛpayā''viṣṭo bhāvivṛttāntamañjasā.. 29..
dvija tvaṃ māsamāhātmyaśravaṇācca harerapi ..
māhātmyaśravaṇātsadyo vidhvastā'khilabaṃdhanaḥ.. 2.7.21.30..
atihāya kalaṃkaṃ ca kramādgatvā punarbhuvi ..
daśārṇe viṣame puṇye bhavitā tvaṃ dvijottamaḥ..31.

Afterwards, by that very fault, my intellect ruined and short-lived, / I met death from high fever on the very next day.
Reaching the hell named Halāhala, filled with waters of molten lead, / and suffering torment for fourteen Manvantaras,
and then in eighty-four lakhs / of wombs in succession, I was born; and now I was dwelling in a tree
ten yojanas wide and a hundred yojanas high, / a cruel, dark serpent in a hollow of seven yojanas.
Having become that, I have lived there, O brahmin seer, afflicted by former karma; / ten thousand years have passed as I remained fasting in the tree-hollow.
By fortune, having heard with both eyes from the lotus of your mouth the nectar of the narrative, / my misfortune was instantly destroyed, O sage.
Casting off the serpent-birth, I have become a man bearing a divine form; / folding my hands in reverence and bowing, I have taken refuge at your feet.
I do not know in which lifetime you were my relative, O best of sages. / I never rendered you any service; whence this compassion of the virtuous?
The nature of virtuous people, whose minds are impartial and who always have pity for living beings, / is doing good to others, and their thought is never otherwise.
Bless me today so that my mind may dwell on righteousness, / and that forgetfulness of Lord Viṣṇu, the wielder of the discus, may never occur anywhere.
May there always be fellowship with the great who act virtuously! / Poverty alone can be the supreme collyrium for one blinded by pride.'
Having praised him in many ways thus, and bowing again and again, / he stood quietly before him with folded hands, bowing down.
Śaṅkha, raising him with his arms, overflowing with complete love, / touched his body with his hand, most auspicious and dispelling weariness.
He bestowed grace on that brahmin who possessed a divine form, / and filled with compassion, he directly told him the future events:
'O brahmin, from hearing the māhātmya of the month and from hearing the māhātmya / of Hari, all your bonds have been instantly shattered.
Having cast off your stain and going again to the earth in due course, / you will become an excellent brahmin in the uneven, sacred Daśārṇa country.