Skandapurana 1.4.26

English (machine translation) 1.4.26

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Nārada said:
As she was going, Girijā saw a radiant companion of her mother,
named Kusumāmodinī, the deity of that mountain.

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She too, seeing the mountain's daughter, her mind agitated by affection,
embraced her and said aloud, "Where are you going again?"

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And she related to her everything, the reason for her anger at Śaṃkara;
and Girijā spoke again to the deity honored by her mother:

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"You are constantly the deity of the king of mountains, O blameless one;
you are everywhere present, and exceedingly affectionate toward me.

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Therefore, I shall tell you what you must do now:
if another woman should enter into the presence of Pinākin,

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you must inform me, O auspicious one; I shall do what is fitting afterwards."
When she said, "So be it," the goddess departed toward the mountain.

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There on that delightful great peak adorned with various wonders,
setting aside ornaments and the like, wearing the bark of trees,

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the mountain's daughter performed tapas, protected by her son,
tormented by five fires in summer, and staying in water during the rains.

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"Take care that no woman enters here near Hara;
and having seen another woman here, tell me, my son.

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I shall immediately thereafter do what is fitting."
Vīraka then said to the goddess, "So be it."

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Having received his mother's command, his limbs flooded with joy, his anxiety gone,
the son bowed down to his mother and went to see the Three-eyed One.

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Then she spoke to the Elephant-faced One, who bowed and stood before her,
begging with a tearful throat, "Take me also, O Pārvatī!"

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"Because of your elephant face, O child, he will surely mock you just as [he mocked] me.
Therefore, come with me; whatever my fate is, yours will be too.

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For death is better, my son, than humiliation by wicked ones."
Having spoken thus and taken him along, she departed toward the snowy mountain.

Thus ends the twenty-eighth chapter, entitled "The Description of Pārvatī's Departure for Tapas", in the Kumāreśvaramāhātmya of the Kaumārikākhaṇḍa, in the first Māheśvarakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit