Skandapurana 4.51.4.1

4.51.4.1

.. atha śrīkāśīkhaṃḍottarārdhaṃ prārabhyate ..
śrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ ..
.. agastiruvāca .. ..
pārvatī hṛdayānaṃda sarvajñāṃgabhava prabho ..
kiṃcitpraṣṭumanāḥ svāmiṃstadbhavānvaktumarhati .. 1 ..
dakṣa prajāpateḥ putrī kaśyapasya parigrahaḥ ..
garutmataḥ prasūḥ sādhvī kuto dāsyamavāpa sā .. 2 ..
.. skaṃda uvāca .. ..
haṃjikātvaṃ yathā prāptā vinatā sā tapasvinī ..
tadapyahaṃ samākhyāmi niśāmaya mahāmate .. 3 ..
kadrūrajījanatputrāñśataṃ kaśyapataḥ purā ..
ulūkamaruṇaṃ tārkṣyamasūta vinatā trayam .. 4 ..
kauśiko rājyamāpyāpi śreṣṭhatvātpakṣiṇāṃ mune ..
nirguṇatvācca taiḥ sarvaiḥ sa rājyādavaropitaḥ .. 5 ..
krūrākṣoyaṃ divāṃdhoyaṃ sadā vakranakhastvasau ..
atīvodvegajanakaṃ sarveṣāmasya bhāṣaṇam .. 6 ..
itthaṃ tasya guṇagrāmānvikathya bahuśaḥ khagāḥ ..
nādyāpi vṛṇvate rājye kamapi svairacāriṇaḥ .. 7 ..
kauśiketha tathāvṛtte putravīkṣaṇalālasā ..
aṃḍaṃ prasphoṭayāmāsa madhyamaṃ vinatā tadā .. 8 ..
pūrṇe varṣasahasre tu prasphoṭya ghaṭasaṃbhava ..
tadabheditayautsukyādaṃḍamaṣṭamake śate .. 9 ..
tāvatsarvāṇi gātrāṇi tasyātimahasaḥ śiśoḥ ..
ūrvoruparisiddhāni daṃḍāṃtarnivāsinaḥ .. 4.2.51.10 ..
aṃḍānnirgatamātreṇa krodhāruṇamukhaśriyā ..
ardhaniṣpannadehena śiśunā śāpitā prasūḥ .. 11 ..
janayitri tvayā dṛṣṭvā kādraveyānsvalīlayā ..
khelato māturutsaṃge yadaṃḍaṃ vyādhita dvidhā .. 12 ..
tadaniṣpanna sarvāṃgaḥ śapāmi tvā vihaṃgame ..
teṣāmevaidhi dāsī tvaṃ sapatnyaṃga bhuvāmiha .. 13 ..
vepamānātha tacchāpādidaṃ provāca pakṣiṇī ..
anūro brūhi me śāpāvasānaṃ māturaṃgaja .. 14 ..

Now begins the second half of the glorious Kāśīkhaṇḍa.
Homage to the glorious Gaṇeśa.
Agasti said:
O delight of Pārvatī's heart! O lord born of the body of the Omniscient One!
I desire to ask something, O Master; you ought to tell it. 1
She was the daughter of Dakṣa Prajāpati and the wife of Kaśyapa,
the virtuous mother of Garutmat: how did she fall into servitude? 2
Skanda said:
How the ascetic Vinatā was reduced to the status of a menial maidservant,
that too I shall relate, O wise one; listen! 3
Long ago, Kadrū bore a hundred sons from Kaśyapa;
Vinatā gave birth to three: Ulūka, Aruṇa, and Tārkṣya. 4
Although the owl obtained kingship, O sage, because he was the chief among birds,
he was deposed from the kingship by all of them because he lacked virtues: 5
"This one has cruel eyes, this one is blind by day, and he always has crooked talons;
the speech of this one causes extreme distress to everyone." 6
Having thus censured his collection of qualities in many ways, the free-flying birds
even today do not choose anyone for their king. 7
When that happened to the owl, eager to see her child,
Vinatā then broke open the middle egg. 8
Breaking it when a thousand years were completed [was proper], O pot-born one,
[yet] out of impatience she broke that egg in the eighth century [of years]. 9
By that time, all the limbs of that exceedingly radiant infant
above the thighs had been formed, while dwelling within the shell. 10
The moment he came out of the egg, with the radiant beauty of his face red with fury,
the infant, whose body was half-formed, cursed his mother: 11
"O mother, because seeing the sons of Kadrū playing in their own sport
upon their mother's lap, you split the egg in two, 12
therefore, since all my limbs are unformed, I curse you, O bird:
become the slave woman of those very sons born of your co-wife's body here!" 13
Then, trembling from that curse, the bird said this:
"O thighless one! Tell me, mother's child, the end of the curse!" 14