Skandapurana 16.31

The goddess said: / That group of five beginning with 'sa' which was spoken of by you, O Śaṃkara, / how did that come to be here? This is a great doubt of mine. 1

Or how did Sarasvatī arrive here, and from where? / How was that submarine fire born, at what time, and in what manner did it come to be? / You ought to tell me all this in detail and as it truly happened. 2

Īśvara said: / Hear, O goddess, how Sarasvatī was born in that sacred field, / and from where she, the destroyer of all sins, arose: 3

Hiraṇyā, Vajriṇī, Nyaṅku, Kapilā, and Sarasvatī. 4

Hear how she was summoned here in ancient times by five seers, / and how she became united with the submarine fire. 5

Formerly, when the war between gods and asuras ceased on account of Soma, / the Moon surrendered Tārā in accordance with the word of the Grandfather. 6

Then the gods set out for heaven, looking downward upon the earth; / then those gods beheld upon earth what seemed like a second heaven: 7

the hermitage of Dadhīci, the foremost of sages, famous throughout the world, / endowed with flowers of all seasons, adorned with trees, / delighting with the fragrance of ketakī, kuṭaja, and bakula blossoms. 8

Having reached such a venerable hermitage grounds, / all the gods began to view it with curiosity and delight. 9

Leaving their aerial chariots at that sacred hermitage, self-restrained, / they proceeded to see that seer just like ordinary men. 10

All the gods beheld [him], resembling another Grandfather; / then all of them were honoured by the seer with water for the feet, arghya, and other rites. 11

All the gods along with Indra took their seats as instructed. / Rising in their midst, Indra addressed that sage: 12

"Relinquishing the weapons before you, please take charge of these." / Hearing that statement, Dadhīci said to the subduer of Pāka: 13

"Leaving the weapons in my presence, go to heaven." / To him Indra said: "And when the time of need arises, 14

they must be returned by you, so that we may vanquish our enemies in battle." / Then, repeatedly enjoining the best of sages, Indra said: 15

"They must be given only to us, and not to anyone else by you, O sage." / When Indra said, "Very well," the best of sages replied to him: 16

"I will give them all to you, especially at the time of battle." / Thinking, "His word will not prove false," the husband of Śacī, / having left the weapons near him, then returned to heaven. 17

A purified king on earth whose soul is cultivated, who hears with diligence of this entrustment of weapons, / attains supreme victory in battle, and sons charming with righteousness, wealth, and renown. 18

Thus ends the thirty-first chapter, entitled "Description of the Surrender of Their Respective Weapons by All the Gods to the Great Seer Dadhīci in the Account of the Origin of the Submarine Fire," in the Greatness of Prabhāsa Field, in the first Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh section Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses. 31