Skandapurana 5.81

Śrī Garuḍa said: / “I have a beloved friend, a brahmin born of the lineage of Bhṛgu. / He has a lotus-eyed daughter named Mādhavī.

No suitable husband could be found for her by that great-souled one; / therefore I was instructed: ‘Bring a suitable husband for her, / O best of birds, if I am esteemed by you.’

Then the entire earth was searched by me for a bridegroom for her; / no bridegroom suitable in every virtue was found for her.

Then you, O Lotus-eyed One, were settled in my mind / as a suitable husband for her, endowed with all virtues.

Therefore, O Lord of the gods, prompted by my words, / accept the hand of that girl who possesses extraordinary beauty.”

The Blessed Lord said: / “Bring that lotus-eyed girl here, O best of the twice-born, / so that having seen her myself, I may then do as spoken.”

Garuḍa said: / “Only out of fear of your splendour was that girl left far behind / together with her father by me; so how may I bring her here?”

The Blessed Lord said: / “Here that splendour of mine will not burn her, / accompanied by her father; therefore, O best of the twice-born, bring her quickly.”

Thus addressed then by that all-powerful Viṣṇu, / he brought that maiden and that brahmin, the scion of Bhṛgu.

Then, having bowed deeply to Madhusūdana, / the illustrious brahmin sat down at the side, near Garuḍa.

That maiden of shapely hips, blameless due to her childish innocence, / sat down on the right edge of the bed of the foe of Mura.

Then Lakṣmī, her limbs overcome with anger, adopting the duty of a principal queen / and thinking, ‘She is a co-wife,’ cursed that maiden:

“Since, casting shame far away, you have joyfully sat upon the bed / of my beloved in front of me, O sinful girl, / therefore you shall surely become deformed with the face of a horse!”

When the curse was thus uttered by Śrī, a great cry of grief arose / among all those standing there, as well as anger in the twice-born.

The brahmin said: / “A maiden is asked for by a thousand, [but] one takes her hand; / by mere words, the status of a wife cannot belong to her in any way,

as long as she is not personally given with solemn declaration in the presence of elders, / before the fire and the twice-born, by people according to the rite prescribed in the Gṛhyasūtras.

Therefore, she is free from that fault; [though] innocent, she was made horse-faced by you / as an equal co-wife, O sinful one; you shall become elephant-faced!”

Having spoken thus, that foremost among brahmins then said to Keśava: / “Indeed, such hospitality was rendered by your wife as she saw fit; / therefore I shall go to that place where my daughter may remain in such a state.”

The Blessed Lord said: / “You should not grieve over this deed, O best of brahmins; / for those who have come into my presence, misfortune never occurs anywhere.

Therefore, she shall certainly not be horse-faced in this birth; / taking her, go home and give her to whomever you desire.

In sleeping, the left side is designated for wives, / and the right for kin who lie down appropriately at that time.

This daughter of yours, O brahmin, took refuge in the place of kin; / therefore, in another birth she shall become my younger sister.”

When I descend onto the surface of the earth for some divine purpose, / if she is said by my beloved to have a horse's face,

then, having performed very great austerity together with her, / I shall make both her and Lakṣmī possess auspicious faces, O brahmin.

Having thus pleased that brahmin with his speech at that time, the Blessed One / held strange and charming conversations together with Garuḍa.

Then, at the end of that conversation, Garuḍa, seeing that woman / who was aged and endowed with fiery brilliance, spoke to the Supreme Person:

“This is unprecedented, O best of gods, this old woman standing at your side. / Why is she here, who is she, tell me, and from where has she come, O Janārdana?”

The Blessed One said: / “She is known in this world, O best of birds, as the elder maiden / named Śāṇḍilī, all-knowing and devoted to celibacy.

She is endowed with the power of austerity and revered by all the gods. / Indeed, there is no such woman in the three worlds, O king of birds.”

Sūta said: / Having heard his speech and laughing, the king of birds, / having looked at her for a long time, spoke to Vāsudeva, O brahmins:

Garuḍa said: / “It is no wonder that very great austerity is performed, / or that gifts are given, and whatever wonder there may be in that, / or that a battle is fought in war by warriors skilled in combat.

Celibacy is not surprising, not wondrous, yet it is a marvel / especially after reaching the stage of youth, O Supreme Person,

and especially in the case of women—in this matter I do not believe it. / Inevitably, one who is in youth, even among animals,

must experience agitation; youth does not exist for self-restraint. / If women do not find a man anywhere,

they perform intercourse with one another, tormented by the arrows of desire. / In the absence of a man, they regard even a leper, a diseased man, / an old man, or a crippled one as the Five-Arrowed God of Love.

Fire is never satiated with logs, nor the great ocean with rivers; / the End-maker is not satiated with all beings, nor is a fair-eyed woman with men.

These women do not observe proper bounds out of fear for the next world, / but only out of fear of the king, or fear born of an elder.”

Sūta said: / Having thus heard his words, the celibate Śāṇḍilī, / though observing a vow of silence, harbored anger in her heart.

In that very moment, both wings of that king of birds / were destroyed instantly, and he became like a headless torso there,

consisting of a lump of flesh, dreadful, though free of all disease, / and incapable of moving even a single step anywhere.

Thus ends the eighty-first chapter, titled “The Description of the Falling of the Wings of the Bird of Fair Wings,” in the Hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmya of the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [section], in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.