Skanda Purana 3.1.53.42

3.1.53.42

38 vinatākadrvorbhaginyorapi sapatnyoḥ kadācitsūryāśvapucchavarṇakathanapaṇena dāsībhāve niścite vinatayā sūryāśvapucche yathārthatayā śvetavarṇe prokte satyapi kadrvā chalena nija-putrāṇāṃ nāgānāṃ sūryāśvapucchasya nijagātraveṣṭanenācchādya nīlatvavidhānāyājñā- karaṇam, nāgaistadvacasyanaṃgīkṛte kadrvā nāgebhyaḥ śāpapradānam, atha karkoṭakā-khyanāgena mātrarthe sūryāśvapucchasya svabhogenācchādya nīlīkaraṇam, atha kadrūvi-natābhyāṃ saha militvā kṛṣṇapucchasūryahayadarśanam , kṛpṇapucchaṃ taṃ sūryahayaṃ dṛṣṭvā chalena nirjitayā'ta eva duḥkhitayā vinatayā kadrvāśceṭītvaṃ svīkṛtya svasutena garuḍena saha kadrvāstatputrāṇāṃ nāgānāṃ ca vahanam, atha garuḍena mātṛtaśceṭītvakā-raṇaṃ vijñāya tasyāḥ kadrvāḥ sakāśātsvamāturdāsyavimuktaye sudhāharaṇārtha gamanā-ya mātuḥ samīpe bhakṣyaprārthanam, mātrā garuḍāya samudramadhyasthitaśabarabhakṣaṇā-rthamājñākaraṇam, garuḍena śabarānbhakṣayitvā tanmadhya āgatasya viprasya tadbhārya-yā kirātyā saha mukhānnirudgiraṇam, atha śabarānbhakṣayitvāpyatṛptena garuḍena nijapituḥ kaśyapasya samīpametya taṃ prati kṣudbādhānivṛttaye bhakṣyaprārthanam, kaśya-pena vibhāvasusupratīkayorbhrātroḥ parasparaṃ śāpato gajakacchapatvaṃ prāptayorbhakṣaṇārthaṃ garuḍaṃ pratyājñākaraṇam , tato garuḍena nijanakhābhyāṃ tau gajakacchapau gṛhītvā tadbhakṣaṇārthamavasthitaye vilaṃbākhyatīrthatīrastharohiṇākhyataruśākhādhirohaṇam, ta- sminnārūḍhamātre tacchākhābhaṅge tacchākhāyāmavalaṃbamānānāṃ vālakhilyamaharṣīṇāṃ patanabhītyā garuḍena tacchākhāyā uccairuttolya madhye sāntarāle kasmiṃścinnirjana-pradeśe nidhānapūrvakaṃ gajakacchapabhakṣaṇam, atha garuḍe sudhāmāhartuṃ svargalokaṃ prati prasthātukāme sati svargaloke'niṣṭotpātāndṛṣṭvā bṛhaspatiṃ pratīndreṇotpāta-kāraṇapraśnakaraṇam , bṛhaspatinendrāya vālakhilyadattaśāpodayakālakathanam , tato garuḍena svargaṃ pratyāgamanam , garuḍasya devaiḥ saha yuddhavarṇanam, tasminyuddhe varadāna-cchalena viṣṇunā garuḍasya nijavāhanatvena prārthanam, athatasmai śakreṇa varapradānam, garuḍena sudhāmānīya nāgānāṃ saṃnidhau kuśeṣu sthāpayitvā svasya māturdāsyānmokṣa-ṇam , atha snānaṃ kṛtvā samāgacchatsu nāgeṣu śakreṇa sudhākalaśasya haraṇam, snātvā samāgatairnāgaiḥ sudhāśaṃkayā kuśeṣu lihyamāneṣu nāgānāṃ jihvāpāṭanena dvijihva tvaprāptiḥ, atha nijamātaramuddiśya cchalakāriṇyai kadrvai garuḍena bhartṛparicaryānarha-tārūpaśāpapradānam , atha tadbhartrā kaśyapena kadrvā nirbhartsanam , atha sādhvyāḥ sacchī-lāyā vinatāyāḥ prārthanayā kaśyapena kadrvai cchaladoṣaśāntaye dakṣiṇodadhitīrastha-phullagrāmavartikṣīrasarasi snānārthamājñākaraṇam, kṣīrakuṃḍe snānena kadrvāśchalajanya-doṣaśāntiḥ, kṣīrasaromāhātmyam.... ........ 70 1

38. Vinatā and Kadrū, although sisters, were co-wives; once, when servitude was wagered on declaring the color of the tail of the sun's horse, although Vinatā truly stated that the tail of the sun's horse was white, Kadrū deceitfully ordered her sons, the serpents, to make it black by covering the tail of the sun's horse with the coils of their bodies; when the serpents refused to accept her word, Kadrū pronounced a curse upon the serpents; then the serpent named Karkoṭaka, for his mother's sake, covered the tail of the sun's horse with his coils and made it black; then, coming together with Vinatā, Kadrū looked upon the sun's horse with a black tail; seeing that sun's horse with a black tail, Vinatā, defeated by deceit and therefore grieving, accepted servitude to Kadrū, and together with her son Garuḍa carried Kadrū and her sons, the serpents; then Garuḍa, learning from his mother the reason for her servitude, in order to free his mother from servitude to that Kadrū, sought to go and fetch the nectar of immortality and asked his mother for food; his mother ordered Garuḍa to eat the Śabaras living in the midst of the ocean; Garuḍa, having eaten the Śabaras, spat out from his mouth a brahmin who had come among them together with his Kirāta wife; then Garuḍa, unsated even after eating the Śabaras, approached his father Kaśyapa and asked him for food to relieve the pangs of hunger; Kaśyapa ordered Garuḍa to eat the two brothers, Vibhāvasu and Supratīka, who had become an elephant and a tortoise through a mutual curse; then Garuḍa, seizing that elephant and tortoise with his claws, mounted a branch of a Rohiṇa tree on the bank of the sacred ford named Vilaṃba in order to stay and eat them; as soon as he mounted it, the branch broke, and fearing the fall of the Vālakhilya great seers who were hanging from that branch, Garuḍa lifted the branch high up, set it down in a certain deserted place in the intermediate space, and ate the elephant and tortoise; then, when Garuḍa wished to set out for heaven to fetch the nectar, Indra, seeing inauspicious portents in heaven, questioned Bṛhaspati about the cause of the portents; Bṛhaspati told Indra that the time had come for the curse given by the Vālakhilyas to take effect; then Garuḍa came to heaven; the description of the battle between Garuḍa and the gods; in that battle, on the pretext of granting a boon, Viṣṇu requested Garuḍa to become his vehicle; then Śakra granted him a boon; Garuḍa, bringing the nectar and placing it upon kuśa grasses in the presence of the serpents, freed his mother from servitude; then, while the serpents went to bathe, Śakra carried off the jar of nectar; when the serpents, having bathed and returned, licked the kuśa grass in expectation of the nectar, their tongues split and they became double-tongued; then Garuḍa pronounced a curse upon Kadrū, who had acted deceitfully toward his mother, that she would be unfit to attend upon her husband; then her husband Kaśyapa rebuked Kadrū; then, at the request of the virtuous and well-behaved Vinatā, Kaśyapa commanded Kadrū to bathe in Kṣīrasaras situated in Phullagrāma on the shore of the southern ocean in order to pacify the sin of deceit; by bathing in Kṣīrakuṇḍa, Kadrū's sin born of deceit was pacified; the māhātmya of Kṣīrasaras. ... 70 1