Skandapurana 7.16.24_195

7.16.24_195

kalyaṃ37 sa bhagavān kalyaḥ38 kālaḥ kālapriyaṃ girim39
mānayan prabhumīśānaṃ gantumarhasi mandaram . . 8.160.30 . .
tathetyukto yamenātha taiścāgnisadṛśairdvijaiḥ40 .
sūryātmajagṛhānnandī śakralokaṃ tato gataḥ41 .. 31 . .
sukṛtīnāṃ tamāvāsaṃ42 vāsavaṃ lokamadbhutam43 .
viveśa tvaritaṃ nandī44 ditigarbhaṃ yathāhihā . .3 2..

"Tomorrow, O blessed one, capable, as Time honoring the mountain dear to Time, / and honoring the Lord Īśāna, you ought to go to Mandara." / Addressed with "So be it" by Yama and by those twice-born resembling fire, / Nandī then departed from the house of the son of the Sun to the world of Śakra. / To that wonderful abode of the virtuous, the world of Vāsava, / Nandī entered swiftly, as the slayer of the serpent entered the womb of Diti.