Skandapurana 14.64.3_2

14.64.3_2

1. The commencement of the description of the Arbuda mountain māhātmya. Therein, first, Vasiṣṭha's journey to the Arbuda mountain; having performed austerity there, his cow, kept for sacrifice, having gone to graze on grass and other plants in the forest, falls into a chasm; Vasiṣṭha's anxiety when the cow does not return in the evening; then Vasiṣṭha, having approached the chasm and heard the lowing of his cow, meditates upon Sarasvatī for her exit; by that meditation, Sarasvatī fills the chasm with her waters and causes the cow to emerge; Vasiṣṭha takes that cow and goes to his hermitage; then Vasiṣṭha goes to Himavat to fill that chasm, and having told Himavat the length and breadth of the chasm, the origin of the chasm is spoken according to the word of Himavat; the beginning of the narration concerning the fissure near Vasiṣṭha's hermitage. 237 1