Skandapurana 5.104

Sūta said: / Then, when the lord of day entered Libra, O best of the twice-born, / the ghosts indeed filled the ground produced from the liṅgas. // 1

Whatever ancient sacred ford or temple of the gods stood there, / was completely filled with dust by those Vyantaras.

Thereupon, O best of the twice-born, well-being arose in that sacred field / for the other worlds too, when those liṅgas became concealed.

Then, after some time, at a certain transition of the yugas, / King Bṛhadaśva arrived from the country of Śālva.

Seeing that vast land destitute of temples, / he set his mind on building temples in that sacred field, O best of the twice-born.

Summoning numerous artisans there by the thousands, / he cleared that ground, which was very extensive underneath.

As the ground was being dug, numerous liṅgas / having four faces then came into the range of sight.

Then the king, having seen the earth covered with those liṅgas, / met his death at that very moment, along with his artisans.

From that time forth, out of fear, no mortal on the face of the earth / builds a temple, a pond, or a well there.

Thus ends the one hundred and fifth chapter, entitled 'Cutting Off the Rākṣasa Liṅgas,' in the māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara sacred field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [section], in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.