Skandapurana 14.0.p1

14.0.p1

Chapter 1: The beginning of the description of the māhātmya of Mount Arbuda; therein, first, the going of Vasiṣṭha to Mount Arbuda; having performed austerity there, the cow reared for the sake of the sacrifice, having gone to graze on grass and the like in the forest, falling into a chasm; because the cow did not return in the evening, Vasiṣṭha experiencing worry; then Vasiṣṭha, having approached near the chasm and heard the lowing sound of his own cow, performing meditation on Sarasvatī for the sake of her coming out; through that meditation, Sarasvatī filling the chasm with her own water and causing the cow's emergence; taking that cow, Vasiṣṭha going to his own hermitage; then Vasiṣṭha going to Himavat to fill that chasm, telling the length and breadth of the chasm to Himavat, and the telling of the origin of the chasm by the word of Himavat; the beginning of the description of the account of the cavern situated near Vasiṣṭha's hermitage.