Skandapurana 16.131

The goddess said: / This [liṅga] which was mentioned by you, heard of as Nāleśvara, / how indeed did it come to be called the liṅga of Dhruveśvara? // 1

Īśvara said: / Listen, O goddess, I shall proclaim the great glory of Dhruveśvara, / hearing which, O goddess, a mortal is freed from the bond of worldly existence. // 2

There was a son of King Uttānapāda named Dhruva, / noble-minded, endowed with knowledge, all-knowing, and pleasant to behold. // 3

Once having reached the excellent sacred field of Prabhāsa, / he performed extensive, exceedingly fierce austerity, O goddess. // 4

Having established Maheśvara for a divine thousand years, / he worshipped with true devotion and praised him with diverse hymns. // 5

I shall tell you that hymn by which I was pleased. // 6

Dhruva said: / He who held the high peak of Kailāsa being shaken by the ten-headed [Rāvaṇa], who was like a peak of Kailāsa, / by pressing down his lotus-like toe—to that Śaṃkara, granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 7

He by whom all the asuras and Danu's sons, accompanied by hosts of vidyādharas and serpents, / were united [to his service] yet released from [the cycle of] fruits, roots, and actions—to that Śaṃkara, granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 8

To whose control this entire universe is ever subject, who enjoys the worlds through his eight bodies alone, / who is the cause of supreme causes—to that Śaṃkara, granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 9

The god who, exceedingly enraged of old, suddenly severed with the tip of the claw of his left lotus hand / the fifth, Brahma-head that was like a fresh lotus—to that Śaṃkara, granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 10

Bowing with devotion at whose feet, having heard [his command] with pure, unwearied words, / the radiant sun dispels the darkness with his rays—to that Śaṃkara, granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 11

A restrained man who recites this hymn of charming meaning composed by Dhruva, / constantly purified and perfected in an assembly of brahmins, reaches the beginningless realm of Śiva. // 12

While he of refined soul was praising me thus, O goddess, I was pleased; / at the end of a full thousand years, I said to noble-minded Dhruva: // 13

'O son, I am pleased; hail to you! You have now become spotless. / I grant you a divine eye; free from sorrow, look at me! // 14

Whatever supreme fruit you have desired in your mind, / I shall grant you all of that; speak quickly before me! // 15

Whether the realm of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Indra, or any other exceedingly rare station, / I grant it, there is no doubt, pleased by your devotion.' // 16

Dhruva said: / 'The realms of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Mahendra are characterised by return; / all that is known to me, and I do not desire it even in thought. // 17

If you are pleased with me, O God, grant me purest devotion; / and O God whose banner is a bull, make your dwelling forever in this liṅga.' // 18

Īśvara said: / All that he thus requested was indeed granted entirely, / and that eternal station of his became that supreme abode of Viṣṇu. // 19

He who worships that liṅga on the new moon day of the month of Śrāvaṇa, / or on the full moon day of Āśvina, obtains the fruit of an aśvamedha sacrifice. // 20

The childless person obtains a son, the seeker of wealth obtains wealth; / handsome, fortunate, enjoying pleasures, and skilled in all scriptures, / he is glorified in the world of Rudra in an aerial chariot drawn by swans. // 21

He who recites or hears this lovely glory of Dhruva, who was worshipped by hosts of asuras and gods, / perfectly tranquil, reaches the eternal realm of Rudra, the treasury of all bliss, adored by hosts of gods and chiefs of the Dānavas. // 22

Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-first chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Dhruveśvara,' in the first [part], the Glory of the Prabhāsa Sacred Field, of the seventh section, Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. // 131