Skandapurana 5.10

Sūta said:
A king of Ānarta, known as Camatkāra,
arrived there in the forest at that time to slay deer.
From afar he saw a doe, motionless beneath a tree,
giving her teat to her fawn, trusting and without fear of anything.

Then the king swiftly, with a straight-jointed arrow
drawn to his ear, struck her in a vital spot, full of joy.

Instantly struck by that vulture-feathered arrow,
she looked in every direction all around, tormented by pain.

Then, seeing the ruler of the earth nearby bearing a bow,
she spoke, her face drenched with tears, loving her fawn:

The doe said:
It was improper, O protector of the earth, what you have done here:
I, whose young fawn is small, have been struck today with a straight-jointed arrow.

I do not grieve, O king, for the death coming upon my own body,
as much as for this helpless fawn who craves the taste of milk.

Since you have performed such a merciless deed,
you shall therefore immediately be afflicted with the disease of leprosy!

The king said:
This is the inherent duty of kings, who effect the destruction of deer;
therefore you ought not to curse me, who was engaged in my own duty.

The doe said:
It is true, O king, what you have declared:
deer were created by the self-manifest [Brahmā] for the slaughter of kṣatriyas.

Yet hear attentively the rule concerning them which was laid down by him,
O king, as I speak it now:

Having slain a deer that is asleep, engaged in mating, devoted to the act of suckling,
or absorbed in drinking water, a man is tainted with sin.

For this reason the curse was pronounced upon you by me, O king;
neither out of passion nor out of fear of death—by the truth I swear upon my soul!

Having spoken thus, the doe gave up her vital breaths, filled with pain;
and that king, indeed, became afflicted with the disease of leprosy.

The king, seeing his own body covered with leprosy,
then summoned his servants and said, deeply sorrowful:

“I will perform austerity; I will worship Śaṃkara
until the destruction of my leprosy disease shall come to pass.

Whatever happiness men pray for in the three worlds,
all that is to be attained by austerity; therefore austerity must be performed by me.

Now, alone, I shall wander on the earth under one tree each day,
living on begged food according to vows,

having my shelter in a deserted house covered over with dust
or at the root of a tree, freed from all likes and dislikes,

impartial toward enemies and friends, regarding a clod of earth, a stone, and gold as equal;
becoming such, I will spend my time for as long as life remains.”

Having thus spoken to those servants and dismissed them, the king,
dedicated to pilgrimage to sacred fords, wandered over the surface of the earth.

Then, after a long time, having received instruction
originating from a brahmin, the king reached the magnificent Śaṅkhatīrtha,

in the sacred field born of Hāṭakeśvara, the destroyer of all diseases,
renowned throughout the three worlds, filled with clear water.

There, by mere ritual ablution, at that very moment that best of kings
was completely freed from the disease of leprosy and became possessed of great splendor.

Thus ends the tenth chapter, titled “Description of the Story of the Relief of King Camatkāra's Leprosy in the Māhātmya of Śaṅkhatīrtha,” in the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [part] of the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.