Skandapurana 4.83.75.3

4.83.75.3

uvāca nayata kṣipraṃ śiśuṃ mātṛgaṇāgrataḥ ..
tāsāmājñāṃ ca kuruta rakṣatāmuṃ prayatnataḥ .. 4.2.83.30 ..
yoginyo vikaṭāvākyātkhecaryastāḥ kṣaṇena tam ..
ninyurgaganamārgeṇa brāhmyādyā yatra mātaraḥ .. 31 ..
praṇamya yoginīvṛṃdaṃ taṃ śiśuṃ sūryavarcasam ..
puro nidhāya mātṝṇāṃ provāca vikaṭoditam .. 32 ..
brahmāṇī vaiṣṇavī raudrī vārāhī nārasiṃhikā ..
kaumārī cāpi māheṃdrī cāmuṃḍā caiva caṃḍikā . 33 ..
dṛṣṭvā taṃ bālakaṃ ramyaṃ vikaṭāpreṣitaṃ tataḥ ..
papracchuryugapaḍḍiṃbhaṃ kaste tātaḥ prasūśca kaḥ.. 34 ..
mātṛbhiśceti puṣṭaḥ sa yadā kiṃcinna vakti ca ..
tadā tadyoginīcakraṃ prāha mātṛgaṇastviti .. 35 ..
rājyayogyo bhavatyeṣa mahālakṣaṇalakṣitaḥ ..
punastatraiva netavyo yoginyastvavilaṃbitam .. 36 ..
paṃcamudrā mahādevī tiṣṭhate yatra kāmyadā .
yasyāḥ saṃsevanānnṛṇāṃ nirvāṇaśrīradūrataḥ .. 37 ..
sarvatraśubhajanminyāṃ kāśyāṃ muktiḥ padepade ..
tathāpi saviśeṣaṃ hi tatpīṭhaṃ sarvasiddhikṛt .. 38 ..
tatpīṭhasevanādasya ṣoḍaśābdākṛteḥ śiśoḥ ..
siddhirbhavitrī paramā viśveśānugrahātparāt .. .. 39 ..
evaṃ mātṛgaṇāśīrbhiryoginībhiḥ kṣaṇena hi ..
prāpito mātṛvākyena paṃcamudrāṃkitaṃ punaḥ .. 4.2.83.40 ..
saṃprāpya tanmahāpīṭhaṃ svargalokādihāgataḥ ..
ānaṃdakānane divyaṃ tatāpa vipulaṃ tapaḥ .. 41 ..
tapasātīva tīvreṇa niścaleṃdriyacetasaḥ ..
tasya rājakumārasya prasannobhūdumādhavaḥ. ..42..
āvirbabhūva purato liṃgarūpeṇa śaṃkaraḥ ..
provāca ca prasannosmi varaṃ brūhi nṛpāṃgaja ..43..
.. skaṃda uvāca .. ..
sarvajyotirmayaṃ liṃgaṃ purato vīkṣya vāṅmayam ..

said: “Take the child quickly before the company of Mothers, / obey their command, and protect him with care!” / 30
At Vikaṭā's word, those sky-wandering yoginīs in an instant / carried him along the celestial path to where the Mothers headed by Brahmāṇī were. / 31
Bowing down, the host of yoginīs placed that child, radiant as the sun, / before the Mothers and reported what Vikaṭā had said. / 32
Brahmāṇī, Vaiṣṇavī, Raudrī, Vārāhī, Nārasiṃhikā, / Kaumārī, and also Māhendrī, Cāmuṇḍā, and Caṇḍikā, / 33
having seen that charming boy sent by Vikaṭā, / asked the child all together: “Who is your father, and who is your mother?” / 34
When questioned thus by the Mothers, he spoke nothing at all; / then that company of Mothers said to that circle of yoginīs: / 35
“He is fit for kingship, marked with great auspicious marks; / he must be taken back there at once by the yoginīs, / 36
where the great goddess Pañcamudrā dwells, granter of desires, / through whose service the fortune of liberation is not far off for mortals. / 37
In Kāśī, which yields auspicious birth everywhere, liberation is at every step; / nevertheless, that seat is truly superior, bringing about all perfections. / 38
Through service at that seat, this child in the form of a sixteen-year-old / will attain supreme perfection by the supreme grace of the Lord of the Universe.” / 39
Thus, accompanied by the blessings of the Mothers, he was immediately brought back / by the yoginīs, on the Mothers' word, to the place marked by the Five Mudrās. / 40
Having reached that great seat, having come here from heaven, / he performed extensive austerity in the divine Forest of Bliss. / 41
Because of his extremely intense austerity, his mind and senses motionless, / Umā’s husband became pleased with that prince. / 42
Śaṃkara manifested before him in the form of a liṅga, / and spoke: “I am pleased; ask a boon, O prince!” / 43
Skanda said: / Beholding before him the liṅga made entirely of light, embodiment of the Word,