Skandapurana 1.1.1.49_47

1.1.1.49_47

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ prathame māheśvarakhaṇḍe'ruṇācalamāhātmye pūrvārdhe brahmasanakasaṃvāde liṃgaprādurbhāvavarṇanaṃnāma prathamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 1 ..

Thus ends the first chapter, named 'Description of the Manifestation of the Liṅga', in the dialogue between Brahmā and Sanaka, in the first half of the Aruṇācalamāhātmya, in the first Māheśvarakhaṇḍa of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand verses. 1.