Matsya Purana 187.1

187.1

narmadāmāhātmye jvāleśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanam.

Mârkandeya said:—The Narmadâ is most sacred and renowned and the sages desirous of emancipation have made numberless divisions, each of the measure of a Brahman’s sacred thread By bathing in them one is liberated from all sins The sacred Jaleśvara is renowned in the three worlds In the days gone by the sages, the Maruts, and Indra, etc , shivering with fear spoke to Śiva "Protect us"-1-4