Three Rakshasa brothers, made arrogant by Brahma's boons, ask Vishvakarma for a home. He directs them to Lanka, thirty leagues wide with golden walls, which he had built at Indra's command. After they abandon it in fear of Vishnu, the sage Vishravas tells his son Kubera to live in the empty city built by Vishvakarma.
The Ramayana of Valmiki, tr. Hari Prasad Shastri (1952-59), Uttara Kanda (wisdomlib.org) § uttara.5; The Ramayana of Valmiki, tr. Hari Prasad Shastri (1952-59), Uttara Kanda (wisdomlib.org) § uttara.3
Sources: The Ramayana of Valmiki, tr. Hari Prasad Shastri (1952-59), Uttara Kanda (wisdomlib.org)
The generous asura king Bali grants a dwarf brahmin three paces of land; two strides cover heaven and earth, Bali offers his own head for the third and is sent to rule Sutala with Vishnu as his doorkeeper.
The Sudarshana is either Shiva's gift at Kashi after Vishnu offers his own eye in place of a missing lotus, or Vishvakarma's work from the radiance shaved off the sun.
King Indradyumna's priest finds Nila Madhava worshipped by a Sabara chief; the image vanishes; new images are carved from a sea-borne log and left unfinished when the carver is disturbed.
Rigveda 10.81-82 ask who made the world and from what wood; the Brahmanas tell of King Vishvakarman Bhauvana, whose gift of the earth the Earth refused.
Indra will not let Vishvakarma stop building his palace until Vishnu, as a boy, shows him a column of ants that were each once an Indra.
An old carpenter carves the images of Jagannath from the log behind a closed door; in Puri's tradition the door is opened early and the images stay unfinished.
How and when Vishvakarma is worshipped: the solar date in Bengal and the east, the day after Diwali elsewhere, and the craft communities who trace themselves to his five sons.
The Ocean tells Rama that the monkey Nala, Vishvakarma's son, has his father's skill; Nala builds the bridge.