Skanda Purana 16.367.p124

16.367.p124

123 digvijayārthaṃ puṣpakeṇa vimānena gacchato rāvaṇasya prabhāse kuṇṭhitaṃ vimānaṃ dṛṣṭvā nīcaiḥ kimasti taddṛṣṭvā''gaccha iti nijamantriṇaṃ pratyājñākaraṇam ,prahastamaṃtriṇā nīcai-rgatvā prabhāsakṣetraṃ dṛṣṭvoparyāgatya rāvaṇāya prabhāsakṣetramāhātmyakathanam, tataḥ prabhāsakṣetre tena rāvaṇena vimānāvataraṇam, sarvanāgāraikavacanāttatra svanāmnā liṃgasthāpanam, rāvaṇeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanam............ 100 2

123. Rāvaṇa, traveling on the Puṣpaka aerial chariot for world conquest, seeing the aerial chariot stalled at Prabhāsa, orders his minister: "See what is down below and come back"; the minister Prahasta, going down and seeing the sacred field of Prabhāsa, comes back up and relates the māhātmya of the sacred field of Prabhāsa to Rāvaṇa; then Rāvaṇa's descent from the aerial chariot in the sacred field of Prabhāsa; on the word of Sarvanāgāraika, the installation of a liṅga there under his own name; description of the māhātmya of Rāvaṇeśvara. 100 2