Skandapurana 14.0.p2

14.0.p2

Chapter 2: Gautama's pupil Uttaṅka, urged by the guru's wife to bring the earrings of Madayantī, wife of Saudāsa, in order to give the fee to the guru, going toward Saudāsa's house; there seeing Saudāsa with a tiger's face who had come to eat his body, making a promise to him to surrender himself; then the acquisition of the earrings from his wife; the release of Saudāsa from the curse; then Gautama's pupil, having gone taking the two earrings, their being stolen by Takṣaka when placed midway on the path; then the going to Pātāla behind Takṣaka in order to bring them back; at that very time, the creation of a pit there; the description of the deeds of Gautama's pupil Uttaṅka.