Skandapurana 3.1.53.11

3.1.53.11

8 atha vetālavaradatīrthavṛttāntavarṇanam , tatra gālavamaharṣikanyāyāḥ kāntimatīnāmnyāḥ sudarśanākhyena vidyādharakumāreṇa madanavihvalatayā keśeṣu grahaṇam, gālavena suda-rśanākhyavidyādharāya manuṣyatvaprāptipūrvakavetālatvaprāptiśāpapradānama, tadanumodaka-sya tatkaniṣṭhabandhoḥ sukarṇakākhyasya ca kevalamanuṣyatvaprāptirūpaśāpapradānam, tata-stayoḥ sudarśanasukarṇakayoryamunātīranivāsigovindasvāmino gṛhe vijayadattāśo-kadattanāmakatanayatvaprāptiḥ, atha svadeśe durbhikṣavaśādvārāṇasīṃ prati gatena goviṃ- dasvāminā kapālamālābharaṇākhyayatimukhādvijayadattanāmakaputrabhaviṣyadviyogaśra- vaṇam, vijayadattasyākasmātkapālasphoṭanāmakavetālatvaprāptivṛttāntavarṇanam 16 2

8. Now, the description of the account of Vetālavarada-tīrtha: therein, the Vidyādhara youth named Sudarśana, overcome with passion, seizing by the hair the daughter of the great seer Gālava, named Kāntimatī; Gālava uttering a curse upon the Vidyādhara named Sudarśana that he would become a human and then a vetāla; and his uttering a curse merely of human birth upon his younger brother named Sukarṇaka, who approved of it; then the birth of those two, Sudarśana and Sukarṇaka, as sons named Vijayadatta and Aśokadatta in the house of Govindasvāmin, who lived on the banks of the Yamunā; then Govindasvāmin, having gone to Vārāṇasī due to a famine in his own land, hearing from the mouth of an ascetic named Kapālamālābharaṇa of his future separation from his son named Vijayadatta; and the description of the account of Vijayadatta suddenly becoming a vetāla named Kapālasphoṭa. 16 2