Skandapurana 3.2.41.5

3.2.41.5

4 Now, the dialogue of Dharmarāja with the apsaras Vardhanī; Dharmarāja grants a boon to the apsaras Vardhanī; then, having reported Dharma's resolve to Śakra and obtained a boon from Śakra, Vardhanī returns to her own abode; then, after the departure of the apsaras, Dharmadeva undertakes fierce tapas such as the practice of the five fires; their minds perturbed by that fierce tapas, the gods and others go to Kailāsa and praise Śiva; then, Śaṅkara comes together with the gods to Dharmadeva who is performing tapas in the forest; Dharma praises the Lord; pleased by that praise, Śaṅkara, in the context of bestowing a boon, grants a boon to Yamadharmadeva after establishing Yamadharma's penance-grove of two yojanas as 'Dharmāraṇya'; then the establishment of the Dharmāraṇya sacred field; there first Yamadharma installs a self-manifest liṅga of Lord Viśveśvara named Dharmeśvara; the construction of the Dharmavāpī [well]; the māhātmya of the Dharmavāpī and Dharmeśvara; in that context, the description of the māhātmya of offering libations to Yamadharma; then Yamadharmarāja himself, describing the glory of Dharmāraṇya, grants the boon of supremacy over all to the sacred field established by himself. — 310 2