Skanda Purana 7.20.236
Skandapurāṇa 7.20.236
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7.20.236
( 1) gautamyupākhyānam, - kṛmilāpuryāmekasyā gautamīnāmnyā vidhavāyā brāhmaṇyāstapasi saktāyāstadbālaputrasya kṛṣṇasarpadaṃśanād maraṇam . arjunanāmnaḥ vyādhena gautamyāstadvṛttāntakathanam . gautamyā vilāpaḥ . vyādhena sarpasya nigrahaṇam, sarpavyādhasaṃvādaḥ, gautamyāstapaso bhītānāṃ kālamṛtyuniyatikṛtāntayamanāṃ bālamṛtyu ( nimitta) kāraṇatvena sarpādyuttarottarakṛtābhiyogānāṃ sarveṣāmekaikaśastatrāgamanam . yamagautamīsaṃvādaḥ, yamamukhād dehināṃ janmamaraṇayoḥ svakṛtaśubhāśubhakarmanimittatvaśravaṇād gautamyā manaso duḥkhaśamanam . devānāṃ varadānena mṛtabālasya punarujjīvanam .
(2) yātudhānyupākhyānam - kṛmilāto gacchatāṃ devanāṃ kṛtyānāmatīrthasthalaprāptiḥ, kṛtyāsamākhyānaprasaṃgāgataṃ tṛṇabindūpākhyānam . yājanaprārthanānaṅgīkārāt prakupitena tṛṇabindunā saptarṣīn prati kṛtyāpreṣaṇam . saptarṣīṇāṃ vināśāya śubhāṃ vāpīmupāśrityāntaraṃ pratīkṣamāṇāyā yātudhānyaparanāmnyā kṛtyāyāḥ parivrāḍveṣeṇendreṇa hananam . tīrthayātropasaṃhāraḥ, viṣṇoraśvamedhena yajanam . tatra śaṃkarasyāgamanam .
(1) The subsidiary narrative of Gautamī: In the city of Kṛmilā, the death of the young son of a widowed brahmin woman named Gautamī, who was devoted to austerity, from the bite of a black serpent. The relating of that incident to Gautamī by a hunter named Arjuna. The lamentation of Gautamī. The capture of the serpent by the hunter; the dialogue between the serpent and the hunter; the arrival there, one by one, of Kāla, Mṛtyu, Niyati, Kṛtānta, and Yama, who, terrified of Gautamī's austerity, had successive accusations hurled against them beginning with the serpent as being the cause [and] instrument of the child's death. The dialogue between Yama and Gautamī; the pacification of Gautamī's mental grief upon hearing from Yama's mouth that living beings' birth and death are caused by their own actions, whether auspicious or inauspicious. The restoration of the dead child to life through the boon granted by the gods.
(2) The subsidiary narrative of Yātudhānī: The arrival of the gods, departing from Kṛmilā, at the sacred ford and place called Kṛtyā; the subsidiary narrative of Tṛṇabindu introduced in connection with the account of Kṛtyā. The dispatching of Kṛtyā against the seven seers by Tṛṇabindu, who was infuriated because of their refusal to grant his request to officiate as priests. The slaying, by Indra in the guise of a wandering mendicant, of Kṛtyā, whose other name was Yātudhānī, who was residing by an auspicious reservoir awaiting an opportune moment for the destruction of the seven seers. The conclusion of the pilgrimage to sacred fords; Viṣṇu's sacrifice by means of a horse sacrifice. The arrival of Śaṃkara there.
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