Skandapurana 16.56

Īśvara said: / Now I shall tell you of the fifth perfected liṅga of great splendor, / situated in the south-western quarter from Brahmā at [a distance of] sixteen bow-lengths, // 1

near the liṅga of Rāhu, the liṅga fashioned by Dhanada, / where, having performed great tapas, he attained the status of Dhanada. // 2

Having established and worshipped the liṅga according to rule for a thousand years, / he became the lord of Alakā there by the grace of Śambhu. // 3

Remembering his former birth and knowing the fruit of the lamp's wick, / and the power of Śivarātri, he came again to Prabhāsa. // 4

Knowing the extraordinary power, he installed Śaṃkara, / by whom Śaṃkara was made manifest there through tapas, // 5

and brought down into that liṅga with great devotion, O great goddess. / Seeing it with devotion, a human being, having worshipped it according to rule // 6

with fivefold offerings, with true devotion, with scents, incense, and ointments— / in his lineage, no one will ever be poor. // 7

And those men endowed with devotion who will worship this liṅga / will become invincible, destroyers of their enemies' pride. // 8

Thus all the great power of Dhanadeśa has been told to you; / having heard and approved it with effort, one never becomes poor. // 9

Thus ends the fifty-sixth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Dhanadeśvara', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, an eighty-one-thousand-verse compendium. // 56