Skandapurana 7.20.25

7.20.25

brahmaṇaḥ samāśvāsanena devyāstapaso nivṛttiḥ . svāśramādvāri jātamaśokaṃ samāśritya saṃsthitāyāṃ devyāḥ samakṣaṃ śaśāṅkatilakasya śivasya vikṛtabrāhmaṇarūpeṇopasthitirvivāhārthaṃ prārthanā ca . devyāḥ svasyāsvatantratvajñāpanam . tadarthaṃ pinturantikaṃ gantumanurodhaḥ . śivasya tenaiva rūpeṇa himālayasamīpe gamanaṃ kanyāyācanaṃ ca . himālayena , tatra sā svecchayā yaṃ tasyā bharttā bhave'ditisvābhiprāyapraka- --- tataḥ pratyāgatya nairāśyaṃ prakaṭayataḥ śivasya skandhe 'śokastabakasaṃsthāpanena tadaiva devyā tasya svato varaṇam, tato'ntarhitasya śivasya punardevyā agrato grāhagrastadīnabrāhmaṇabaṭurūpeṇa narmalīlāpradarśanam .

The cessation of the goddess's austerity through the consolation of Brahmā. As the goddess stands leaning against an aśoka tree that grew by the door of her own hermitage, the appearance of Śiva, whose mark is the crescent moon, in the guise of a deformed brahmin before her, and his proposal for marriage. The goddess's declaration of her lack of independence. The request that he go to her father for that purpose. Śiva's going to the presence of Himālaya in that very guise and begging for the maiden. Himālaya's disclosure of his own view that 'there, he whom she chooses by her own free will shall be her husband'— / then, upon Śiva returning and displaying despair, the goddess immediately chooses him of her own accord by placing an aśoka blossom-cluster upon his shoulder; then, Śiva disappears and again displays playful sport before the goddess in the form of a miserable young brahmin seized by a crocodile.