Skandapurana 4.3.67.2

4.3.67.2

with great collections of manuscripts and with livelihoods for scribes; (15)
with gifts of medicine in many forms and with charitable kitchens in great numbers;
with funds for drinking-water booths in the summer, with fuel for fires in small stoves in the winter; (16)
with much that is suited for the rainy season, for the sake of umbrellas, coverings, and the like;
with lamps for recitation at night, and with unguents for feet and other parts; (17)
and also the reciters of the Purāṇas in every temple with wealth;
with abundant funds for the performance of dance and singing in the temple; (18)
with lime-plaster work for the temples, with restorations in many ways,
with the cost of painting, and with decorations such as series of stage sets; (19)
with wave offerings, bdellium, fine incense of ten ingredients and the like,
with camphor wicks and the like, in abundance for the worship of the deity; (20)
with ceremonial baths of the five nectars, and also with fragrant ceremonial baths,
with mouth-perfumes for the deity, and with manifold gardens for the deity; (21)
for the sake of the great worship, for stringing garlands and the like at the three junctures of the day,
with sounds of instruments such as conches, kettledrums, and mṛdaṅga drums in the temple of Śiva; (22)
with bells, pitchers, pots, and other vessels used as bathing accessories,
with white drying-cloths, and with fragrant yakṣakardama paste; (23)
with recitations, fire-offerings, recitation of hymns, and loud chanting of the names of Śiva,
with movements accompanied by circular group dances and the like, and with circumambulations; (24)
with such and other extraordinary, manifold series of ritual acts,
having resided for five nights, and having visited many sacred fords, (25)
and having gratified the poor and the helpless, having bowed down to the all-pervading Viśveśvara,
and having thus fulfilled the pilgrimage with rules such as celibacy, (26)
having repeatedly seen Viśvanātha, praised him, and bowed to him,
they went, for the benefit of others, to the place where Agasti stays. (27)
Having established a liṅga under his own name and having made a water-basin before it,
he was reciting the Śatarudriya hymn with an unwavering mind. (28)
Seeing him from afar, like a second sun,
radiant everywhere with limbs resembling a blazing fire— (29)