Skandapurana 16.18

Sūta said: / Having been thus addressed then by Śaṃkara, the renowned Goddess / asked again, O foremost among vipras, for the detailed māhātmya of the sacred field. // 1

The Goddess said: / Today my birth is fruitful, and fruitful is my austerity, O Lord; / today my divinity has come into being through your grace, O Śaṃkara! // 2

Today I have obtained good fortune, the vision of wisdom has been granted by you; / today my two ears are adorned with the ornaments of the māhātmya of the sacred field. // 3

Today a mass of splendour has arisen in me, wisdom has settled in my heart; / today my lineage and conduct [are vindicated], today my beauty and auspicious marks! // 4

Today my delusion arising from wandering among sacred fords has been dispelled; / my mind has become steady in Prabhāsa, O foremost among the proud! // 5

Formerly he was worshipped by me; today the Lord of Gods is pleased with me. / Surrounded by fire, I stood upon one foot. 6.

That austerity of mine has borne fruit today, O lover of devotees! / Today the māhātmya of Prabhāsa-kṣetra has been revealed to me. 7.

I ask again, O Lord of Gods; speak the truth, O master! 8.

Even now doubt remains, O Lord, regarding the māhātmya of the tīrtha. / Tell me of another wonder, O God, O Maheśvara! 9.

This moon that exists, O God, resting upon your head— / whose is he, how was he born, and at what time? Tell me, O Lord! 10.

Īśvara said: / In this time known as Vārāha, O Great Goddess, / while this second half of Brahmā's life is current, 11.

at the beginning of the second month, on the first lunar day as it is proclaimed, / on that [day] the earth was raised up at first by the Boar, O beloved; / therefore the name 'Vārāhakalpa' arose upon the surface of the earth. 12.

In that kalpa, O Great Goddess, when the dawn twilight had passed, O beloved, / and at the beginning of the first Manu, Svāyambhuva indeed, O Goddess, 13.

when the Ocean of Milk was being churned by the gods and also the Dānavas, / fourteen jewels were born there. 14.

Among them was the moon of great splendor, born of reality. / That very one has been borne by me upon my head even to this day, O beloved Goddess. 15.

When the poison had been drunk, O Great Goddess, as I dwell perpetually in Prabhāsa, / the moon was placed by the gods as an ornament for my liberation in the past. 16.

Because I am adorned with the moon, therefore I am Śaśibhūṣaṇa. / Remaining in that place even today, self-manifest, in the form of a liṅga, 17.

and the giver of all perfections, enduring for a kalpa always, O beloved. / Thus this has been related, O Goddess; what else do you ask? 18.

Thus ends the eighteenth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Account of the Origin of the Moon, the Ornament on Śiva's Head,' in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses]. 18.