Skandapurana 7.15.12_125

7.15.12_125

varṣāṇāṃ tu śataṃ kukṣau bhramamāṇo bhavasya saḥ8 .
na tasya dadṛśe chidraṃ śuceriva yathā kaliḥ . .1 2 . .
yogamapyasya saiśvaryamaṇimādiguṇānvitam9 .
prajahāra mahādevo manovāgyatacetasaḥ10 . . 13 . .
atha śabdo mahānāsīt pramathāsurasainyayoḥ .
taṃ śrutvā śabdamāvigno bhārgavaḥ pratibodhitaḥ ..14. .
sontargata umābharturbrāhmaṇastapasaidhitaḥ11 .
tuṣṭāveṣṭaiḥ stavairdevaṃ somaṃ somavibhūṣaṇam . . 1 5. .
āpadbhāvaṃ prapannasya tasya devena śūlinā .
liṅgena niṣkramasveti prasādābhyudayaḥ12 kṛtaḥ . .1 6..

Wandering inside the belly of Bhava for a hundred years, / he found no opening, just as the Kali age finds no flaw in a pure man. / The Great God also stripped away his yoga / along with its sovereign power and qualities such as animan, though his mind and speech were restrained. / Then a great sound arose from the armies of the pramathas and the asuras; / hearing that sound, the Bhārgava became alarmed and was aroused. / Being inside the husband of Umā, that brahmin, strengthened by austerity, / praised the god Soma, adorned with the crescent moon, with beloved hymns of praise. / To him who had fallen into distress, the trident-bearing god / bestowed the dawn of his favor, saying: 'Go forth through my liṅga!'