Skandapurana 1.4.33: adhyāyaḥ 35

Nārada said: / When Kumāreśa had thus been installed here by Kumāra, the gods / bowed to Guha and said with folded hands:

"We wish to submit something to you; listen in truth: / this ancient, renowned custom of victors is proclaimed:

Those who conquer enemies in battle must erect the token of a pillar. / Therefore, for the sake of celebrating your victory, an excellent pillar

let us erect, if you will deign to grant permission. / And this excellent third liṅga fashioned by Viśvakarman—

install it in front of that pillar, O son of Śiva!" / When the gods spoke thus, the magnanimous Skanda said, "So be it."

Then the delighted hosts of gods headed by Śakra erected an excellent pillar / made of Jāmbūnada gold, bright and splendid, upon the battlefield.

All around it in the directions [they made] an altar fashioned of all jewels; / there the delighted, auspicious apsarases danced in ten ways.

Rejoicing, the Mothers sang auspicious songs for Skanda; / Indra and the others danced there, and Viṣṇu himself was the instrumentalist.

Showers of flowers fell from the sky, divine musical instruments sounded; / having thus set up the pillar named 'Victory', which gladdens the universe,

the god Stambheśvara was then installed by the three-eyed god's son, / together with the gods headed by Viriñci, who were filled with joy,

along with Hari, Hara, and the Ādityas, accompanied by Indra and hosts of sages. / On the western side of that very [pillar], with the tip of his lance, the great-souled

Guha fashioned a well; the Gaṅgā arose there from the nether world. / On the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of Māgha, offering libations to the ancestors

and bathing in the well with devotion, O son of Pāṇḍu, / a man clearly obtains the fruit of whatever merit comes from a śrāddha at Gayā.

He should then worship the god Stambheśvara with fragrant perfumes and flowers; / having attained the fruit of a Vājapeya sacrifice, he rejoices in the abode of Rudra.

On a full-moon or new-moon day at the confluence of the Mahī and the ocean, / having performed a śrāddha, whoever, free from sin, worships Stambheśvara,

his ancestors are satisfied, and being satisfied they grant blessings; / he shatters all sins and is glorified in the world of Rudra.

Thus the blessed Rudra spoke of old for the delight of Skanda. / In this very way the excellent fourth liṅga was installed;

all the gods bowed down, chanting, "Well done! Well done!"

Thus ends the thirty-fifth chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Stambheśvara', in the Kaumārikākhaṇḍa of the first section, the Māheśvarakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].