The girls said, “Do us this favour, by your blessing may we become the good and the respected mothers of all the worlds." He replied, “Let it be so." And that high-souled one again and again said, “You shall be devided into Shivas and Ashivas (good and evil spirits). Then after having established Skanda's sonship, the mothers went away.
कुमार्य ऊचुः भवेम सर्वलोकस्य मातरो वयमुत्तमाः॥ प्रसादात् तव पूज्याश्च प्रियमेतत् कुरुष्व नः। सोऽब्रवीद् बाढमित्येवं भविष्यध्वं पृथग्विधाः॥ शिवाश्चैवाशिवाश्चैव पुनः पुनरुदारधीः। ततः संकल्प्य पुत्रत्वे स्कन्दं मातृगणोऽगमत्॥