Skandapurana 4.67.92.9

4.67.92.9

itthaṃ gaṃdharvatanayā vilapaṃtīḥ kṛpāturam ..
śuśrāva nāgarājosau ratnacūḍo mahāmanāḥ .. 19 ..
kosau matsvāmino nāma ratneśasya maheśituḥ ..
liṃgarājasya gṛhṇāti karmabaṃdhanabhedinaḥ .. 4.2.67.120 ..
punarapyārtarāvaṃ sa śrutvā bālāmukheritam ..
ratneśa rakṣarakṣeti gṛhītāstro viniryayau ..21 ..
taṃ vasārasapānena mahāmāṃsaniṣevaṇāt ..
atyaṃtonmatta duśceṣṭaṃ ratnacūḍo niraikṣata.. 22 ..
adhyākṣipacca re duṣṭa śiṣṭakanyāpahāraka ..
maddṛṣṭigocaraṃ yātaḥ kva yāsyasyadya re'dhama .. 23 ..
mama bāṇahataprāṇaḥ prayāṇaṃ kuru durmate ..
ārtatrāṇodyatamate vaivasvatapuraṃ prati .. 24 ..
ratneśvarasya yairnāma pralayāpadyapi sphuṭam ..
gṛhītaṃ na bhavādṛgbhyasteṣu bhītirbhayātmasu .. 25 ..
ratneśvaramahānāma kṛtatrāṇāstu ye narāḥ ..
teṣāṃ janmajarāvyādhi kalikālabhayaṃ kutaḥ ..26..
ityuktvā tā bhayatrastāstanmukhaprahitekṣaṇāḥ ..
vyāghraghrātā iva mṛgīrmābhaiṣiṣṭetyuvāca saḥ .. 27 ..
ityāśvāsyātha gaṃdharvīḥ sa vai bhujagarājajaḥ ..
ākarṇapūrṇamākṛṣya kodaṃḍaṃ prāhiṇoccharam .. 28 ..
sopi kruddho danujarāṭpadāspṛṣṭabhujaṃgavat ..
āviddhya kāladaṃḍābhaṃ parighaṃ vyasṛjanmahat ..29..
hṛdi ratneśvaraṃ liṃgaṃ yasya samyagvijṛṃbhate ..
alātadaṃḍavattasminkāladaṃḍopi jāyate .. .. 4.2.67.130 ..
aṃtareva sa ciccheda parighaṃ svamaheṣubhiḥ ..
durvṛtasya yathehāyurvicchidyetāṃtaraiva hi .. 31 ..
tatosya bāṇaṃ cikṣepa kālānalasamaprabham ..
sa bāṇastasya hṛdayaṃ praviśya pragaveṣya ca .. 32 ..
prāṇānasya viniryātya svayaṃ tūṇamagātpunaḥ ..

As the Gandharva daughters were thus lamenting in deep distress, / that high-minded king of Nāgas, Ratnacūḍa, heard them:
"Who is this taking the name of my lord Ratneśa, the great ruler, / the king of liṅgas who shatters the bonds of karma?"
Hearing once more the cry of distress uttered from the maiden's mouth— / "O Ratneśa, save us! Save us!"—he took up his weapon and went forth.
Ratnacūḍa beheld him, who from drinking the serum of fat / and consuming human flesh was behaving wicked and utterly frenzied.
And he rebuked him: "O wicked one! O abductor of virtuous maidens! / You have come within the range of my sight; where will you go now, O vile one?
Bereft of life by my arrows, make your journey, O evil-minded one, / toward the city of Vaivasvata, [for] my mind is resolved on protecting the afflicted!
Those by whom the name of Ratneśvara is uttered clearly, / even in the calamity of universal dissolution, have no fear of such as you, who are fear personified.
Indeed, for those men who have found protection in the great name of Ratneśvara, / whence can there be any fear of birth, old age, disease, or the age of Kali?"
Having spoken thus, he said, "Do not fear!" / to those maidens trembling with fright, whose eyes were fixed upon his face like deer smelled out by a tiger.
Having thus consoled the Gandharva maidens, that son of the serpent king / drew his bow up to his ear and discharged an arrow.
That king of Danus also, enraged like a serpent stepped on with a foot, / whirled around and hurled a huge iron club resembling the rod of Death.
For him in whose heart the Ratneśvara liṅga fully manifests itself, / even the rod of Death becomes like a wooden fire-brand.
With his great arrows he cut the iron club to pieces midway in the air, / just as a wicked person's lifespan is severed right midway in this world.
Then he shot an arrow at him, shining like the fire of cosmic dissolution; / that arrow entered his heart, searched it thoroughly,
and having driven out his vital breaths, returned of its own accord to the quiver.