Skandapurana 4.66.47.6

4.66.47.6

samāgatyeha kāśyāṃ yaḥ kuryādekaṃ śivālayam .. 18 ..
tena trailokyamakhilaṃ sālayaṃ kṛtameva hi ..
tena dattāni dānāni mahāṃti vidhipūrvakam .. 19 ..
suparvaṇi supātrāya sutātha śraddhayādhikam ..
yena svavittamānena dharmopārjita vittataḥ .. 4.2.66.120 ..
kṛtaṃ śaṃbhormahāsadma na taṃ padmā tyajetkvacit ..
tapāṃsi tena taptāni śīrṇaparṇāśanānyapi .. 21 ..
vārāṇasīṃ samāsādya yenākāri śivālayaḥ ..
aśeṣāḥ suviśeṣāḍhyā iṣṭāṃstena mahāmakhāḥ.. 22 ..
ānaṃdakānane yena devadevālayaḥ kṛtaḥ ..
iti tasya samādeśaṃ samākarṇyānugāstataḥ ... 23 ..
cakrurdevālayaṃ śreṣṭhaṃ yāvadvyuṣṭā na yāminī ..
tāvacchaileśvaraṃ liṃgaṃ śaileśena pratiṣṭhitam ..
caṃdrakāṃtamaṇeścaṃcatkāṃtiścetitamaṃḍapam .. 24 ..
alekhayatpraśastiṃ ca praśastākṣaramālinīm ..
vyācakṣāṇāṃ nijāṃ sarvaṃ gotrebhyopyadhikonnatim .. 25 ..
tato'ruṇodaye jāte snātvā paṃcanade hrade ..
śailarājaḥ kālarājaṃ namaskṛtya samarcya ca .. 26 ..
tatra rāśiṃ samutsṛjya paritastavarito yayau ..
pārvatīyairanugataḥ sarvairapi nijālayam .. 27 ..
tataḥ prātaḥ samālokya gaṇau huṃḍanamuṃḍano ..
hṛṣṭau devālayaṃ ramyaṃ varaṇāyāstaṭe śubhe .. 28 ..
adṛṣṭapūrvadevāya nivedayitumāgatau ..
tau tu dṛṣṭvā mahādevamumādarśitadarpaṇam .. 29 ..
praṇamya daṃḍavadbhūmau kṛtāṃjalipuṭau gaṇau ..
kṛtābhyanujño bhrūkṣepādvijñaptimatha cakratuḥ .. 4.2.66.130 ..
devadeva na jānīvaḥ kenaciddṛḍhabhaktinā ..
atīva ramyaḥ prāsādo nirmito varaṇātaṭe .. 31 ..
āsāyaṃ naikṣicāvābhyāṃ dṛṣṭodyaiva prage vibho..
gaṇoditamitīśāno niśamyāha girīṃdrajām .. 32 ..

“Whoever comes here to Kāśī and builds a single abode for Śiva, / by him the entire three worlds are truly provided with an abode. / By him great gifts have been duly given, / on auspicious occasions, to worthy recipients, with daughter[s], and with abundant faith. / Whoever, according to the measure of his wealth, from riches earned by righteousness, / has built a great abode for Śambhu, Lakṣmī will never abandon him. / He has performed austerities, even subsisting on withered leaves, / who, having reached Vārāṇasī, has built an abode for Śiva. / He has offered all the great sacrifices rich in every excellence, / who has built an abode for the God of gods in the Forest of Bliss.” / Thus having heard his command, his followers then / built an excellent temple before the night had passed away. / Meanwhile, the Śaileśvara liṅga was installed by the King of Mountains, / with a pavilion illumined by the glittering radiance of moonstone gems. / And he had an inscription engraved, with a garland of laudatory letters, / proclaiming his own supreme elevation surpassing even all mountains. / Then, at sunrise, having bathed in the pool of the Pañcanada, / the King of Mountains bowed to and worshipped the Lord of Time (Kālarāja), / and leaving a heap [of treasures] there, went swiftly all around / to his own abode, accompanied by all his mountaineers. / Then in the morning, seeing that lovely temple on the auspicious bank of the Varaṇā, / the two gaṇas, Huṇḍa and Muṇḍa, delighted, / came to inform the God who had not seen it before. / Seeing Mahādeva holding a mirror shown by Umā, / the two gaṇas bowed down on the ground like a stick with palms joined. / Having received permission by a brow's flick, they made this report: / “O God of gods, we do not know by what person of firm devotion / an exceedingly beautiful temple has been built on the bank of the Varaṇā. / It was not seen by the two of us until evening, [yet] was seen this very morning, O Lord!” / Hearing what was spoken by the gaṇas, Īśāna said to the daughter of the King of Mountains: