Skandapurana 16.172

Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to that Bharateśvara liṅga, / situated not very far off in the northeast quarter from that [place]. (1)

There was a king named Bharata, a descendant of Āgnīdhra, famous on earth, / after whose name this land of Bhārata is sung among the worlds. (2)

And he performed fierce austerity in this sacred field, O dear Pārvatī, / for a thousand divine years, having installed Maheśvara. (3)

Desiring sons, that best of men worshipped Śaṃkara. / Thereupon the Lord was pleased and eager to grant a boon. (4)

He gave him eight sons and one renowned daughter. / Having attained what he desired, that king became fulfilled. (5)

Having divided Bhārata into nine parts, he gave them separately to his sons. / From them the regions came to be named after them. (6)

Indradvīpa, Kaseru, Tāmravarṇa, Gabhastimat, / Nāgadvīpa, Saumya, Gāndharva, and Aruṇa: (7)

And this ninth region is called Kumārī, O dear one. / The eight other regions were inundated by the ocean. (8)

Endowed with villages and lands, they exist situated in the midst of the sea. / Of them, only this one called Kumārī remains at present. (9)

From the Bindusaras southward to the ocean, / it is extended across one thousand yojanas; (10)

its length is proclaimed to be nine thousand yojanas. / This was the expansion of that great-souled Bharata, O goddess, (11)

who performed fifty-six horse sacrifices along the Gaṅgā, / and thirty along the Yamunā—Bharata, who was worshipped by the world. (12)

And by the grace of Īśvara he rejoices in heaven like a god. (13)

Whoever will worship that liṅga installed by Bharata, / he will certainly obtain the fruit of all sacrifices and gifts. (14)

The man who sees it on the full moon of Kārttika under the conjunction with Kṛttikā / does not, even in a dream, see the dreadful and terrible hell. (15)

Thus ends the one hundred and seventy-second chapter, named “Description of the Māhātmya of Bharateśvara,” in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [khaṇḍa], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. (172)