[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 3.1.53.11 # Skandapurana 3.1.53.11 Skandapurāṇa 3.1.53.11 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.1.53.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.1.53.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.53.10) - [Next: 3.1.53.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.53.12) - [Up: 3.1.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.53) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.3.1.53.11) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.53.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.53.11) · Pramāṇa