Skandapurana 16.152

Īśvara said: / The third Bhairava has been declared; hear about the fourth Bhairava, / situated three bow-lengths to the western side of Brahmeśa,

which pacifies all sins and grants all desires to human beings, / named Nāradeśvara, established indeed by Nārada.

Formerly, the venerable seer Nārada stayed in the world of Brahmā; / seeing there a great, divine lute provided with ten thousand strings,

left behind by Sarasvatī in the world of Brahmā, possessing great brilliance, / he, seized by curiosity, played it then.

As the strings were being played, brahmins fell to the earth; / they were the seven renowned musical notes beginning with ṣaḍja, fallen unconscious.

Filled with astonishment upon seeing them, carefully releasing the lute, / he asked the god Brahmā: "O lord, what is this strange event?

When the strings were being played, brahmins fell to the earth. / Who are these brahmins, O god, and why do they lie as if dead?"

Brahmā said: / These musical notes, O fortunate one, have fallen unconscious to the earth; / on account of playing in ignorance, sin has now been incurred by you.

The sin of ruining seven brahmins has overtaken you; / therefore, go quickly, O sage, to the excellent sacred field of Prabhāsa.

Worship the lord of the gods for the purification from all sins. / Addressed thus, Nārada, grieving there again and again,

lamenting intensely, came to the sacred field of Prabhāsa; / and diligently approaching the Brahmakuṇḍa right there,

he worshipped Bhairava for a hundred divine years, O beloved; / then he became free of taint, and likewise an expert in song.

From that time forth, that liṅga became known in the world, O great goddess, / as Nāradeśvarabhairava, the destroyer of all sins.

He who out of ignorance plays the lute and the musical notes, / should go there for purification from that sin, O great goddess.

He who, having conquered his food, worships Nāradeśa-bhairava / at the three times of day in the month of Māgha, captivates the women of heaven.

Thus ends the one hundred fifty-second chapter, entitled "The Description of the Māhātmya of Nāradeśvarabhairava" in the Māhātmya of Brahmakuṇḍa, in the Māhātmya of Prabhāsa Sacred Field, the first [part] in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa of the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses.