Skandapurana 6.2.61.54.1

6.2.61.54.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
ekaṣaṣṭitamaṃ viddhi saubhāgyeśvaramīśvaram ..
yasya darśanamātreṇa saubhāgya matulaṃ labhet .. 1 ..
pradhamaṃ prākṛte kalpe rājābhūdaśvavāhanaḥ ..
prāgjyotiṣapure ramye dharmātmā kīrttivarddhanaḥ .. 2 ..
anekayajñakṛtprājñaḥ saṃgrāmeṣvapa rājitaḥ ..
tasya bhāryā viśālākṣi nāmnā madanamañjarī .. 3 ..
kāśirājasutā subhrū rūpeṇātīva śobhanā ..
dakṣā suśīlā dharmiṣṭhā gṛhavyāpārako vidā .. 4 ..
catuḥṣaṣṭikalāyuktā sadā bhartṛhite ratā ..
pūrṇenduvadanā saumyā sadā madhurabhāṣiṇī .. 5 ..
pūrvakarmavaśāddevi durbhūgā samajāyata ..
sā neṣṭā tasya nṛpaternetrodvegakarī sadā .. 6 ..
śrotrodvegakaraṃ vākyaṃ tasya rājñaḥ karoti sā ..
dadāha locane rājastasyāḥ saṃdarśanaṃ sadā .. 7 ..
mṛrchāṃ prāpnotyasahyāṃ sa tasyāḥ sparśena bhūpatiḥ ..
kadā cālokito rājā tayā premṇā varānane ..
dahyamāno'titīvreṇa vahninā vākyamabravīt .. .. 8 ..
dvāsthaitāṃ durbhagāṃ bhāryāmādāya vipine vane ..
parityajāśu naitatte vicāryaṃ vacanaṃ mama .. 9 ..
tato nṛpasya vacanamavicāryamavekṣya saḥ ..
dvāsthastatyāja tāṃ subhrūmāropya syaṃdanaṃ vane .. 5.2.61.10 ..
sā ca tyaktā vane śūnye rudatī ca muhurmuhuḥ ..
sasmāra taṃ mahīpālaṃ tamamanyata daivatam .. .. 11 ..
atha sā cārusarvāṃgī tatrāsaktātmamānasā ..
niśvāsaparamā ninye dinaśeṣaṃ tathā niśām .. 12 ..
niśvasantyanavadyāṃgī hāheti rudatī muhuḥ ..
mandabhāgyeti cātmānaṃ nininda madirekṣaṇā .. 13 ..
na vihāre na cāhāre ramaṇīye na tadvane ..
na kandareṣu śailānāṃ sā babandha tadā ratim ..

Īśvara said: / Know the sixty-first [liṅga] to be Saubhāgyeśvara, / by the mere darśana of which one obtains matchless good fortune.
Formerly, in the natural kalpa, there was a king named Aśvavāhana, / righteous, renowned, in the pleasant city of Prāgjyotiṣa.
Wise, the performer of many sacrifices, undefeated in battles. / His wife, O large-eyed one, was named Madanamañjarī.
The fair-browed daughter of the king of Kāśi, exceedingly beautiful in appearance, / clever, virtuous, most righteous, skilled in household duties,
endowed with sixty-four arts, always devoted to her husband's welfare, / with a face like the full moon, gentle, and always sweetly speaking.
O goddess, by the force of past deeds she became unloved [by her husband]. / She was disliked by that king, always distressing his eyes.
Her speech caused torment to the king's ears; / the sight of her always burned the king's eyes.
At her touch, that king would fall into an unbearable faint. / Once, looked upon with love by her, O fair-faced one,
burning with an intense fire, the king uttered these words:
"Gatekeeper, take this unfortunate wife and in the deep forest / abandon her immediately; do not question this order of mine!"
Then, seeing that the king's command was not to be questioned, / the gatekeeper placed that fair-browed lady in a chariot and abandoned her in the forest.
Abandoned in the deserted forest, weeping again and again, / she remembered that king; she considered him her deity.
Then she, beautiful in every limb, her mind fixed upon him, / spent the remainder of the day and the night given over to deep sighs.
Sighing, her limbs flawless, weeping repeatedly, "Alas, alas!" / the intoxicating-eyed lady reproached herself as ill-fated.
Neither in diversion, nor in food, nor in that charming forest, / nor in the caves of the mountains did she then find delight.