Varunapurana 6: vāruṇopapurāṇe ṣaṣṭho'dhyāyaḥ

Varuṇa said: / Formerly, O lords of sages, the Prajāpati's son named Dakṣa / sacrificed with a horse sacrifice at the confluence of the Gaṅgā and the ocean,

without Viśveśvara, the god, while inviting the other gods. / As he was thus sacrificing there, Satī appeared,

along with tens of millions of attendants and her female companions all around; / coming there, the supreme goddess spoke to her father Dakṣa.

The glorious Satī said: / "Why has this great sacrifice been undertaken without summoning me? / Even the lord, the soul of the universe, is not seen in the assembly of gods.

He alone is indeed the king of sacrifice; why is he not worshiped in the great rite?" / Then, hearing the words of Satī, [Dakṣa said]: "This Maheśvara is not worthy of worship;

therefore, excluding you, Satī, I give the oblation assigned among the gods." / Thus addressing Dakṣa, [she said]: "Your sacrifice is ruined today!

This body was born from you; I cast it off through yoga." / Having thus cast off her body through yoga, the goddess

went again to Hara with her own divine body. / To crush the pride of that Dakṣa, [Hara],

summoning the mighty Vīrabhadra, [said]: "Destroy the great sacrifice today!" / Having bowed to the god, the leader of the attendants, Vīrabhadra, along with the attendants,

went and destroyed the pavilion of the wives, that leader of the attendants. / He seized the gods as well, striking them then with his mace.

He cut off the head of the Sacrifice which was running away in the form of a deer. / He cut Dakṣa with his sword and smashed the teeth of Pūṣan.

The noble-minded one struck down Viṣṇu, kicked Indra and the others with his feet, / and tore the bodies of the officiating priests.

And he drove the other gods to every quarter. / Going back, he reported to the god. The compassionate lord Hara

joined the head of a ram to Dakṣa, who acts without distress. / Praised again by him, the god, the husband of Girijā, the lord,

granted him the merit of a thousand horse sacrifices. / Then, to remove his own sin, Dakṣa devoutly

worshiped the lord of gods on the mountain of Tryambakeśvara. / Such was this deed of Dakṣa, seen by me in the past.

Therefore, having failed to worship Śarva, the lord of sacrifice, he met with that condition. / Whoever hears this with devotion or recites it along with brāhmaṇas,

he too, having obtained the fruit of a horse sacrifice, shall go to Śiva.

Thus ends the sixth chapter, on the deeds of Dakṣa, in the Vāruṇa secondary Purāṇa.