Skandapurana 5.102

Sūta said: / As Rāma set out toward his own abode, / hear, O best of the twice-born, the wonder that occurred on the way.

O twice-born, that aerial chariot Puṣpaka going along the skyway / suddenly became motionless, causing wonder to men.

Then, seeing that Puṣpaka motionless in the courtyard of the sky, / Rāma in astonishment spoke these words to the son of the wind:

O son of the wind, go quickly to the earth and ascertain the reason: / why has this Puṣpaka become motionless in the sky?

Its movement has never anywhere been checked by anyone, / this noble Puṣpaka born of the glance of Brahmā.

Saying “So be it,” Hanūmān went to the surface of the earth, / and returning quickly, bowed to the best of the Raghus and spoke:

Here beneath this is the auspicious sacred field named Hāṭakeśvara, / where Brahmā himself, the creator of the world, resides in person.

The Ādityas, the Vasus, the Rudras, the two divine physicians the Aśvins, / they all stay there, as well as other siddhas and kinnaras.

For this reason, this Puṣpaka does not cross over / that sacred field and has become motionless; this which I have said is true.

Sūta said: / Having heard those words of his, filled with curiosity, / the descendant of Raghu directed the Puṣpaka toward that sacred field. / Together with all those monkeys and rākṣasas of various kinds, / having descended delighted, he [went] all around that sacred field.

He looked at the sacred ford and the holy shrines. / Then he beheld Cāmuṇḍā fashioned by the Grandfather, / having bathed there in the pool that grants desires.

Then Rāma beheld [the image] fashioned by his father, / having seen the four-armed god, the lord of deities, as if his own self.

Having become pure and bathed in the king's stepwell, and offered libations to his ancestors, / he then reflected in this sacred field that grants much merit:

“I shall certainly establish a liṅga, just as Keśava [was established] by my father. / Likewise, my beloved brother Lakṣmaṇa has resorted to heaven;

I shall establish a liṅga designated with his name. / And [I shall establish] him in sculpted form, and the auspicious [one] accompanied by Sītā, / and likewise myself in stone in this most pure sacred field.”

Having thus resolved, Rāma, the best of weapon-bearers, / established five temples with true devotion.

Then all those monkeys, and especially the rākṣasas, / established their own respective liṅgas separately.

They remained right there for a very long time, filled with faith; / then, boarding the excellent aerial chariot, they went to Ayodhyā.

All this has been related to you: how the great Rāmeśvara / along with Lakṣmaṇeśvara came to be in that very auspicious sacred ford.

The person who, having risen in the morning, always sees the two of them, / obtains the entire fruit that is gained here when the Rāmāyaṇa is heard.

Moreover, whoever recites the deeds of Rāma on the eighth or fourteenth day [of the fortnight] / before them, obtains the full fruit of a horse sacrifice.

Thus ends the one hundred and second chapter, named “Description of the Construction and Consecration of the Five Temples Beginning with Lakṣmaṇa by Śrī Rāmacandra in the Hāṭakeśvara Kṣetra,” in the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara Kṣetra in the sixth section, the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses.