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# Skandapurana 7.8.34\_134

Skandapurāṇa 7.8.34\_134

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.8.34\_134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.8.34_134)

tasya tadvacanaṃ śrutvā śaśāpa girijāmarān .  
yasmānmama suto dehe nepsitaṃ tairdurātmabhiḥ .  
svāsu patnīṣu tasmātte na prāpsyanti surāḥ sutam ..1 38. .  
pṛthivī cāpi saṃmūḍhā macchāpopahatendriyā .  
bahūnpatīnsamāsādya na putraṃ prāpsyate kvacit . .1 39 . .  
sanatkumāra uvāca94  
virarāma tato devī śaptvā devānsavāsavān .  
kaiṭabhā nāma nāmnā ca puṇyā naikavarapradā . .8.72.140 ..

> Hearing his word, the mountain-born goddess cursed the immortals:  
> 'Since a son in my body was not desired by those wicked ones,  
> therefore those gods shall not obtain a son in their own wives.  
> And the earth also, bewildered, her senses impaired by my curse,  
> having obtained many husbands, shall never obtain a son.'  
> Sanatkumāra said:  
> Then the goddess fell silent after cursing the gods along with Indra,  
> \[she who is\] sacred, known by the name Kaiṭabhā, granter of many boons.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.8.34_134) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Ambikākhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.ambikakhanda.77.139) — Sanskrit

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