Skandapurana 7.4.52_153

7.4.52_153

pitṛṣvantarhiteṣvevaṃ vāyubhakṣastadā dvijaḥ .
kāṣṭhaloṣṭhopalībhūto nirucchvāsovatiṣṭhata17 . . 15 ..

When the ancestors had vanished in this way, the twice-born, subsisting on wind,
became like a piece of wood, a clod of earth, or a stone, and remained without breathing. // 15