Skandapurana 4.67.92.13

4.67.92.13

madhyādholokayormadhye na vasedyasya vīkṣaṇāt .. 77 ..
madhyameśaṃ samabhyarcya naro madhyamaviṣṭape ..
āsamudrakṣitīṃdraḥ syāttato mokṣaṃ ca viṃdati .. 78 ..
airāvateśvaraṃ liṃgaṃ tatprācyāmiṣṭasiddhikṛt ..
dṛśyate yatpatākāyāṃ ramya airāvato gajaḥ ..79 ..
vṛddhakāleśvarasyaiṣa prāsādo ratnanirmitaḥ .. .
pratidarśaṃ vasedyatra rātrau caṃdraḥ satārakaḥ .. 4.2.67.180 ..
yasya saṃdarśanānnṛṇāṃ na kālaḥ prabhavedbhave ..
na kaliḥ prabhavetsatyaṃ na ca kalmaṣarāśayaḥ .. 81 ..
iti yāvatkathāṃ cakruḥ saṃbhrāṃtā iva bālikāḥ..
tāvadvasuvibhūtiḥ sa gaṃdharvastvarayā yayau ..82..
nāradācchrutavṛttāṃtaḥ subāhudanujanmanaḥ ..
ratnāvalī sutā prītā sasakhīkā yathāhṛtā .. 83 ..
ratneśvarātsamāyāṃtī śūnye gaganavartmani ..
yathānayacca pātālaṃ yathā yuddhamabhūtpunaḥ .. 84 ..
yathā ratneśa bhaktena ratnacūḍena ghātitaḥ ..
sa subāhurdanujanurmaheṣvāsena ceṣuṇā .. 85 ..
yathā ca pṛṣṭavṛttāṃto vāpīmārgeṇa cānayat ..
śaṃkhacūḍasya vāpīṃ tāṃ pātāleṣu pravartinīm .. 86 ..
yathā ca prāpya niryātāḥ kāśīṃ dṛṣṭvāpi bālikāḥ ..
bhṛśaṃ saṃbhrāṃtimāpannāḥ paśyaṃtyopi samutsukāḥ .. 87 ..
dṛṣṭvā gaṃdharvarājastāṃ punarjātāmivātmajām ..
savayasyāmanāmlānamukhapaṃkajasuśriyam.. 88 ..
pariṣvajya samāghrāya lalāṭaphalakaṃ muhuḥ ..
aṃkamāropya papraccha sarvaṃ vṛttāṃtamādarāt..89..
atha sā kathayāmāsa danujāpahṛteḥ kathām.. ..
ratneśvaraṃ varāvāptiṃ svapnāvasthāṃ vihāya ca..4.2.67.190..
ratnāvalīmanovṛttiṃ vijñāyātha mukheṃgitaiḥ .. śaśilekhā samācaṣṭa spaṣṭavarṇaiḥ savistaram.. 91 ..

"By the sight of which one does not dwell between the middle world and the nether world.
Having worshipped Madhyameśa, a man becomes an emperor whose realm extends to the sea / in the middle world, and then attains liberation.
To the east thereof is the liṅga Airāvateśvara, bestower of desired perfections, / upon whose banner is seen the lovely elephant Airāvata.
This temple of Vṛddhakāleśvara is fashioned of gems, / wherein the moon with the host of stars dwells every new-moon night;
by the sight of which time has no power over men in this transmigratory existence, / Kali truly has no power, nor do heaps of sins."
While the maidens, as if bewildered, were talking thus, / Vasuvibhūti, that gandharva, came in haste,
having heard the news from Nārada about the son of Danu, Subāhu: / how his beloved daughter Ratnāvalī, together with her companions, was abducted
while returning from Ratneśvara through the empty path of the sky; / how he carried her to Pātāla, and how a battle then ensued;
how that son of Danu, Subāhu, was slain by the devotee of Ratneśa, / Ratnacūḍa, with a great bow and an arrow;
and how, having inquired of the matter, he brought [them] by way of the stepped-well, / that stepped-well of Śaṅkhacūḍa that opens into the nether worlds;
and how, having reached and emerged from it, the maidens, even upon seeing Kāśī, / fell into great bewilderment, gazing eagerly.
Seeing his daughter, who seemed as if born anew, / accompanied by her companions, the beauty of her lotus-face unfaded,
the king of the gandharvas embraced her, repeatedly smelled her forehead, / placed her on his lap, and respectfully asked about the whole account.
Then she related the story of her abduction by the Danu-born, / but omitted [mention of] Ratneśvara, the obtaining of the boon, and the dream-state.
Then, having discerned Ratnāvalī's intention through the expressions of her face, / Śaśilekhā recounted [everything] at length in clear words.