Skandapurana 7.16.24.4

7.16.24.4

Bound […] in the realm of the faults of sovereignty, they experience destruction and [delusion] just as I did. // 39
[…] for by the grace […] then. / Having performed auspicious deeds […] you fashioned the realm of Śiva […] // 8.155.40
Sanatkumāra said:
While he was thus praising, the God holding the trident in his hand, whose banner is the bull, / Śaṃkara, pleased at the end of a thousand years, spoke: // 41
“O son, I am pleased, welfare unto you; you have now become free of taint. / I bestow divine vision upon you; behold me, O lord of the Dānavas! // 42
[…] whatever excellent fruit is desired, / I shall grant all of that; speak, O best of the Dānavas: // 43
Whether the state of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, or Indra, difficult for gods to attain, / or else become the king of all the worlds as of old.” // 44
Andhaka said:
“The states of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Indra are characterized by return [to worldly rebirth]; / all that is known to me, even in mind […]. // 45
If you are pleased, O Lord of the gods, bestow upon me leadership among the gaṇas, / which is beyond distinction, utterly pure, and forever imperishable.” // 46
Devadeva said:
“[…] worshiped by all the worlds, // 47
assuming forms at will, a great yogin, endowed with noble courage, possessed of great strength, / endowed with the qualities of lightness and the rest, beloved, the best of persons.” // 48
Sanatkumāra said:
Then […] having granted that very rare boon, / Mahādeva […] having become […], vanished right there. // 49
[…] // 8.155.50
Approaching the most desirable, boon-granting God, well-disposed to brahmins, of boundless splendor, / and having arrived […] // 51
[…] // 52
[…] having paralyzed the supreme trident through heroic feats, / […] // 53
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