Skandapurana 3.2.41.38

3.2.41.38

37. Now, the singing of praise to Māruti by those three thousand brahmins; Māruti, pleased by that praise, gave fruit to them to eat in order to dispel their hunger; then, giving those brahmins, as a token of recognition, two separate packets containing hairs from his two armpits, he gave the command to throw them at the royal gate, in order, respectively, to consume the entire prosperity of the king by fire, and to revive the entire prosperity again; then, taking those two packets, those Moḍha brahmins, overjoyed, stayed there for three nights near Śrī Māruti at Śrī Rāmatīrtha, performing the Brahmayajña and other rites; then, on the night of the third day, Hanūmat placed those twice-borns upon a stone slab ten yojanas wide and requested them to sleep; then, while those twice-borns were asleep, the transport of that stone slab towards Dharmāraṇya by Māruti through his father, Vāyu; now, when they arrived at Dharmāraṇya along with that immense stone slab, the coming of the people residing in the village and the sons and grandsons of those brahmins to their presence; after the festival of reunion and conversation of those three thousand brahmins with all the brahmins dwelling in the village, their departure to their respective homes with great celebration... 158 1