Skandapurana 7.1.27_41

7.1.27_41

tasmai devāya somāya praṇamya prayataḥ śuciḥ .
purāṇākhyānajijñāsorvakṣye skandodbhavaṃ śubham ..3 . .
dehāvatāro devasya rudrasya paramātmanaḥ .
prājāpatyābhiṣekaśca haraṇaṃ śirasastathā ..4. .

Having bowed to that god, accompanied by Umā, self-restrained and pure, / I shall tell the auspicious origin of Skanda to [you who] wish to know the Purāṇic narrative: / the bodily descent of the god Rudra, the Supreme Self; / the consecration of the Prajāpati, and likewise the taking of the head;