Skandapurana 5.91

Sūta said: / Having spoken thus, the blessed Grandfather ceased, / having Himself propitiated the enraged Fire, O best of the twice-born. 1

Then, together with all the gods headed by Śakra, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, / he went to Brahmā's world, and those gods went to their own abodes. 2

Fire too, staying in the agnihotra fires of the foremost among the twice-born, / accepted according to rule the sacrificial oblation, and likewise that which arose from the continuous stream of clarified butter. 3

Thus arose there the peerless Agnitīrtha, / bathing where at dawn a man is freed from the sin born of the day. 4

Then, seeing those gods departing toward their own abode, / the lord of elephants, the parrot, and the frog, filled with sorrow, spoke: 5

“On your account we have been cursed by the Fire, O lords of the gods! / Therefore, let some means be devised for our tongues.” 6

The gods said: / “Although your tongue is inverted, O best of elephants, / it will be capable of its function just like those of others; of this there is no doubt. 7

Moreover, you, staying in the palaces of kings, / accompanied by great honor, will eat sweet food. 8

And though your tongue, O parrot, has been made slow by the Eater of Oblations, / even so it will become praiseworthy to rulers of the earth 9

and to other wealthy persons, by our grace. / And you, O frog, although you have been made tongueless by Fire, / your sound will travel far, even without a tongue.” 10

Having spoken thus, those gods, filled with supreme compassion, / departed thence to their own abode after bestowing favor upon them. 11

Thus ends the ninety-first chapter, entitled ‘The Description of the Origin of Agnitīrtha,’ in the Greatness of Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [part] of the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. 91