Skanda Purana

तेन मे वल्लभो राजन्न चाहं तस्य वल्लभा

O king, he became my beloved, but I was not beloved to him.

नान्यत्र कुरुते भावं ब्रह्मचर्यव्रते स्थितः अपृच्छं प्रमदास्तात यास्त्यक्ताः पतिभिः किल

He, steadfast in the vow of celibacy, does not direct his feelings elsewhere. Father, I questioned women who had been abandoned by their husbands.

ताभिरुक्ता ह्यहं भूप वश्यो भर्त्ता भविष्यति

O king, those women told me, 'The husband will become obedient.'

भेषजैर्विविधैश्चूर्णैर्मंत्रैर्मोहकरैः परैः

With various medicines, powders, and mantras of powerful delusion,

ततोऽहं त्वरिता गत्वा तासां वाक्येन भूपते

Then, O king, I quickly went as they had instructed me.

प्रदोषे पयसा युक्तश्चूर्णो भर्त्तरि योजितः

At dusk, the powder mixed with milk was administered to my husband.

यदा पीतश्च चूर्णस्तु मन्त्रेणातीव गुंठितः

When the powder, thoroughly concealed by mantra, was drunk,

द्वारदेशे स्थितः क्रंदन्दासोऽस्मि तव शोभने

I stood at the doorway, weeping, O beautiful one, as your servant.

तत्तस्य रुदितं ज्ञात्वा मंत्रमाहात्म्यतो नृप

Knowing his crying, O king, was due to the power of the mantra,

ततः प्रभृति कांतो मे वश्योऽभूद्भवने स्थितः 5.2.78.

From that moment, my beloved became obedient to me in the house.

ताम्रभ्राष्ट्रे च दग्धाहं युगानि दश पंच च छेदिता कालसूत्रेण पीडिता घ्राणयंत्रके

I was burned in a copper vessel for fifteen ages, cut by the thread of time, tormented by a nose-pressing device.

क्वाथीभूता तप्ततैलैर्घटे दर्व्याथ लोडिता

Boiled in a pot with scalding oil, stirred with a ladle,

दलिता दंतदलने दग्धाहं रौरवे भृशम्

Crushed by teeth-grinding, I was terribly burned in Raurava hell.

यान्यापि युवती तात भर्तुर्वश्यं समाचरेत्

Any young woman, dear one, who seeks to control her husband,

भर्त्ता नाथो गुरुर्भर्ता भर्त्ता वै दैवतं परम्

The husband is master, the husband is teacher, the husband is indeed the supreme deity.

तुष्टे भर्त्तरि नारीणां तुष्टाः स्युः सर्वदेवताः भस्मीभवति सा नारी यया भर्त्ता न तोषितः

When the husband is pleased, all the gods are pleased with women; she is reduced to ashes who does not please her husband.

यस्य प्रसादात्प्राप्यंते भोगाश्च विविधाः सदा

By whose favor various enjoyments are always obtained,

तिर्यग्योनिशतं याति कृमिपक्षिशतानि च

She enters a hundred animal wombs, and hundreds of births as worms and birds.

एवं पुनर्मया भुक्ता नरका भृशदारुणाः

Thus again I endured hells of extreme torment.

किंचित्पातकशुद्ध्यर्थं चंडालस्य च वेश्मनि 5.2.78.

For the partial cleansing of my sin, I was born in the house of a caṇḍāla.

सारमेयैर्वृता दीना भक्ष्यमाणा पुनःपुनः तैरहं तुद्यमानापि महाकालवनं गता

Surrounded by dogs, wretched, repeatedly devoured by them, though tormented by them I went to the great forest of death.

दृष्टो मया महादेवो दैवतो मृगमाणया

I beheld the great god, the divine one, while pursuing the deer.

तस्य दर्शनमात्रेण गता शक्रपुरं प्रति दिव्यांबरधरा दिव्या दिव्यमालाविभूषणा

Merely by seeing him, I went toward the city of Indra, adorned in celestial garments, radiant, and decorated with divine garlands.

तत्राहं पूजिता देवैः स्तुताहं चारणैस्तथा

There, I was honored by the gods and praised by the celestial beings.

वल्लभा रूपसंपन्ना शाकले नगरे शुभे

Beloved and endowed with beauty, I resided in the auspicious city of Shakala.

स्मृत्वा लिंगस्य माहात्म्यं हर्षो जातस्तु तत्क्षणात्

Remembering the greatness of the linga, joy arose in me at that very moment.

जाता जातिस्मरा तात ब्रह्मचर्यव्रते स्थिता यथा न भूयो मे जन्म स्याच्च संसारसागरे

I became one who remembers past births, O father, established in the vow of celibacy, so that I might not be born again in the ocean of worldly existence.

इति पुत्रीवचः श्रुत्वा चित्रसेनो महीपतिः

Hearing these words of his daughter, Citrashena, the king,

ददर्श तत्र तल्लिंगं पूजयामास भक्तितः

Saw that linga there and worshipped it with devotion.