[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 7.20.114 # Skandapurana 7.20.114 Skandapurāṇa 7.20.114 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.20.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.20.114) anyeṣāṃ caturṇāṃ cakravākānāṃ tatraiva kasyacidyāyāvarasya sutatvena janmagrahaṇam . brahmadattasya pañcālabrahmadhanvabhyāṃ saha bahukālaṃ kāmpilye rājyasukhabhogaḥ . tadanantaraṃ caturṇāṃ yāyāvarasutānāṃ yogeśvarāṇāṃ saṃketaślokadvayaśravaṇena jātasmṛterbrahmadattasya vane gatvā yogena tanutyāgaḥ . pañcālasya tapasā yakṣatvaprāptiḥ . brahmadhanvanaśca devadevyā ārādhanataḥ kāmarūpitvaprāptiḥ . hālopākhyānam, bhalandanopākhyānam . kāmavaśād vyāghrarūpeṇa ṛṣiṃ saṃtrāsya riraṃsayā ṛṣipatnīṃ dharṣayato brahmadhanvanastasyāḥ śāpavaśād vyāghrayoniṃ prāptiriti somanandinaḥ pūrvavṛttopasaṃhāraḥ . 58 aṣṭapaṃcāśattamedhyāye - brahmaṇo varalābhādanantaraṃ kṛṣṇavarṇāpahānāya pārvatyāḥ sarasi snānam . sarasi snātāyāḥ pārvatyāḥ śarīrakośataḥ kauśikyutpattiḥ . devyājñayā kauśikyā durgānāmnā vindhyaśikhare nivasanam . > The other four cakravākas taking birth in that very place as the sons of a wandering ascetic; Brahmadatta enjoying royal pleasures for a long time in Kāmpilya together with Pāñcāla and Brahmadhanvan; thereafter, upon hearing two cryptic verses from the four sons of the wandering ascetic who were masters of yoga, Brahmadatta, having regained memory \[of his past lives\], goes to the forest and casts off his body through yoga; Pāñcāla attains the status of a yakṣa through austerity; Brahmadhanvan attains the power of assuming forms at will through propitiation of the God and Goddess; the episode of Hāla, the episode of Bhalandana; Brahmadhanvan, overcome by passion, having frightened a seer in the form of a tiger and seeking to violate the seer's wife out of lust, obtains birth as a tiger on account of her curse—thus the conclusion of the past history of Somanandin. In the fifty-eighth chapter: Pārvatī's bathing in a lake after obtaining the boon from Brahmā in order to shed her dark complexion; the emergence of Kauśikī from the bodily sheath of Pārvatī who had bathed in the lake; Kauśikī's dwelling on the peak of the Vindhya under the name Durgā by command of the Goddess. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.20.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.20.113) - [Next: 7.20.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.20.115) - [Up: 7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.20) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.20.114) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.20.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.20.114) · Pramāṇa