इत्युक्त्वा मणिभद्रोऽपि सुतेन सहितो ययौ
Having spoken thus, Maṇibhadra departed together with his son.
एष ते कथितो देवि प्रभावः पापनाशनः
O Goddess, this power of yours, which destroys sin, has been related to you.
इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां पंचम आवंत्यखण्डे चतुरशीतिलिङ्गमाहात्म्य उमामहेश्वरसंवादे वडलेश्वरमाहात्म्यवर्णनं नाम पंचसप्ततितमोऽध्यायः
Thus ends the seventy-fifth chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Greatness of Vaḍaleśvara,' in the dialogue between Umā and Maheśvara, within the Avanti section of the eighty-one-thousand-verse Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.
विद्धि पापहरं देवि दर्शनात्कामदं नृणाम्
Know, O Goddess, that its sight removes sin and grants desires to men.
पुरा देवयुगे देवि प्रजापतिसुते शुभे
O auspicious one, in the age of the gods, daughter of Prajāpati,
ते भार्ये कश्यपस्यास्तां कद्रूश्च विनता तथा
Those wives of Kaśyapa were Kadrū and Vinatā.
कश्यपो धर्मपत्नीभ्यां मुदा परमया युतः
Kaśyapa, united with his righteous wives, was filled with supreme joy.
हर्षादभ्यधिकां प्रीतिं प्रापतुः स्म वरस्त्रियौ
The two excellent women attained even greater delight from happiness.
द्वौ पुत्रौ विनता वव्रे कद्रूपुत्राधिकौ बले
Vinatā requested two sons, stronger than the sons of Kadrū.
तस्यै भर्त्ता वरं प्रादाल्लप्स्यसे पुत्रकोत्तमौ
Her husband granted her the boon: 'You will obtain two foremost sons.'
यथा च प्रार्थितं लब्ध्वा वरं तुष्टाऽभवत्तदा
Having received the boon as desired, she became pleased at that time.
कद्रूश्च लब्ध्वा पुत्राणां सहस्रं तुल्यतेजसाम्
Kadrū, having obtained a thousand sons of equal brilliance,
ते भार्ये वरसंहृष्टे कश्यपो वनमाविशत् जनयामास चार्वंगी द्वे चांडे विनता तदा ।। 5.2.76.
The wives, delighted by the boon, Kaśyapa entered the forest; Vinatā then gave birth to two eggs.
तयोरंडानि निदधुः प्रहृष्टाः परिचारिकाः
The attendants, rejoicing, placed their eggs.
ततः पंचशते काले कद्रूपुत्रा विनिर्गताः
Then, after five hundred years, the sons of Kadrū emerged.
ततः पुत्रार्थिनी देवी व्रीडिता सा तपस्विनी
Then the goddess, desiring sons, became ashamed and devoted herself to austerity.
पूर्वार्द्धकायसंपन्नमितरेणा प्रकाशितम्
One was revealed with only half its body complete.
योऽहमेवं कृतो मातस्त्वया लोभपरीतया
Mother, I have been made thus by you, overcome by greed.
पंचवर्षशतान्यस्या यया विस्पर्द्धसे सदा
For five hundred years you have always competed with her.
यद्येनमपि मातस्त्वं मामिवांडविभेदनात्
Even if you, mother, like me, because of breaking the egg—
प्रतिपालयितव्यस्ते जन्मकालोऽस्य धीरया
You must patiently wait for the time of his birth.
एवं शप्त्वा ततो देवि विनतां मातरं स्वकम्
Having thus cursed, the goddess then addressed her own mother Vinatā.
हाहा मया नृशंसेन माता स्वजननी स्वका माता देहारणिः पुंसां माता दुःखसहा परा ।।5.2.76.
Alas! By me, so cruelly, my own mother has been wronged— a mother is the source of the body for men, a mother endures the greatest suffering.
गर्भक्लेशे परं दुःखं माता जानाति यादृशम्
A mother alone knows the extreme pain of the suffering of pregnancy.
गुरूणामेव सर्वेषां माता गुरुतरा स्मृता
Of all teachers, the mother is considered the greatest.
यदि पिंडप्रदानं तु गयायां कुरुते सुतः न च मातृविहीनस्य ममत्वं कुरुते पिता
Even if a son performs the offering of the ball of rice at Gayā, the father does not show affection to one who is without a mother.
विकलो मातृहीनस्तु पुत्रो हि प्रोच्यते तदा तदा शून्यं जगत्सर्वं यदा माता वियुज्यते
A son without a mother is called incomplete; the whole world becomes empty when the mother is lost.
सोऽहं पापसमाचारो जातो मातृविहिंसकः
I have become a sinner, one who has harmed his mother.
जातोऽहं विकलांगस्तु प्राक्कृतेनैव कर्मणा
I have been born with defective limbs, due to actions from a previous life.
एवं विलपतस्तस्य कश्यपस्य सुतस्य च
As he, the son of Kaśyapa, was lamenting in this way—