Skandapurana 16.153

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the excellent Hiraṇyeśvara, / situated two bow-lengths to the north-west of Brahmakuṇḍa,

which pacifies all sins and destroys the floods of poverty, / beyond Kṛtasmara and to the east of Agnitīrtha,

and south-west of Yameśvara, as well as north of the sea. / To the east of that liṅga, Brahmā performed great austerity / and worshipped the three-eyed god of gods.

Then Mahādeva, being pleased, [said]: "O Brahmā, choose a boon of me."

Brahmā said: / If you are pleased with me, O god, my desire is to perform a sacrifice; / you ought to tell me what place is exceedingly sacred.

Īśvara said: / From Kṛtasmarā to Brahmakuṇḍa, and from Yameśa up to the ocean, / even a sinner who reaches this area is liberated. // 6

There the Viṣuvatī ever flows for meritorious men. / O Lord, perform [the sacrifice] wherever you wish in your mind. // 7

Thus spoken to, Brahmā then began the supreme sacrifice. // 8

Then the gods, Indra and others, came there seeking their share, / and all the seers, desiring their share, assembled there. // 9

Then he gave priestly fees again to those who had arrived at the sacrifice. / But then, O renowned lady, as they were being distributed, the priestly fees were exhausted. // 10

Then Brahmā, deeply troubled, meditated in his mind at that time. / Having joined his palms in reverent salutation, he spoke this word: // 11

“O Lord, Virūpākṣa, the sacrifice is not being concluded; / O God, due to the lack of priestly fees, it does not reach completion. // 12

Act in such a way that all depart endowed with priestly fees.” / Having heard the Grandfather’s words and then meditated, / by me, // 13

goddess Sarasvatī was remembered out of desire for the welfare of the gods. / That most holy goddess arrived, and she was spoken to by me then: // 14

“The lotus-born [Brahmā's] wealth is exhausted, and the sacrifice is not completed; / therefore, by my favor, become a stream carrying gold.” // 15

Then Sarasvatī's current surged forth flowing westward, / and thousands of golden lotuses arose. // 16

Reaching Daityasūdana up to Agnitīrtha, O beloved, / with that golden current the auspicious water of Sarasvatī / filled [the place] on all sides with tens of millions of lotuses. // 17

Having given those very golden [lotuses] as priestly fees to the brahmins, / Brahmā, delighted, completed the sacrifice along with the twice-born. // 18

Throwing down upon the earth the lotuses that were left over, / he installed the liṅga Kanakeśvara on top of them. // 19

Having established there that liṅga bowed to by all the gods, / he gave priestly fees to each of the seers in due order; / to each one he gave ten thousand golden lotuses. // 20

Then the remaining lotuses were placed upon the earth / inside the Brahmakuṇḍa; no unmeritorious man finds them. // 21

The water of that pool is seen to be multicolored even today. / Through contact with the lotuses below it, the water turns golden in an instant. // 22

Prajāpati, having placed the golden lotuses beneath / and established the liṅga above, then worshipped it himself. / Because of the divine golden lotuses, it became Hiraṇyeśa. // 23

It pacifies all sins and destroys poverty. / Having seen Hiraṇmayeśāna, one is freed from all sins. // 24

Whoever worships that liṅga on the fourteenth day of the month of Māgha / has worshipped the entire universe with its moving and unmoving beings. // 25

All gifts are given, and all the gods are pleased; / the universe is as good as given by him who has worshipped that liṅga. // 26

This has been told to you by me out of affection, O fair-complexioned lady; / it has not been told to anyone by me, being a great secret, O beautiful-faced lady. // 27

Whoever hears this with devotion, or reads it endowed with devotion, / freed from all sins, goes to the world of the gods. // 28

Thus the five pure, exceedingly renowned Bhairavas / situated near Brahmakuṇḍa have been described to you, O beautiful woman. // 29

Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-third chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Hiraṇyeśvara' in the Glory of Brahmakuṇḍa, in the Glory of Prabhāsa Sacred Field, the first [part] in the Prabhāsa Section, the seventh [book] in the Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, an eighty-one-thousand-verse collection. // 153