Skandapurana 16.195

Īśvara said: / Then one of controlled self should go to Vṛddhaprabhāsa, / situated to the south of Ādiprabhāsa, not very far away,

a four-faced great liṅga that destroys sins upon sight.

The goddess said: / How did it get the name Vṛddhaprabhāsa, O Lord? / What would be the fruit when it is seen, praised, and worshipped?

Tell me this, O God, in brief and not in excessive detail.

Īśvara said: / In the beginning, O goddess, long ago in the first Svāyambhuva Manvantara, / in the fourth Tretāyuga, in the supreme sacred field of Prabhāsa,

at that time, O great goddess, long ago in the former Manvantara, / in the fourth Tretāyuga, seers gathered there,

travelers of the northern path, for the sake of the darśana of Prabhāsa. / Having seen that god covered by a thunderbolt, O great goddess,

they experienced great dejection and then spoke these words: / 'Without seeing the liṅga of Śaṃkara, we will not go home.

Desiring heaven, we have indeed traveled a great distance; / therefore, we will stay right here until the darśana of the liṅga.'

Having thus made their resolve, they engaged in supreme austerity: / staying in the open air during the rains, taking refuge in water during the cold season,

practicing the five fires in summer, self-restrained celibates. / Over many groups of years, those brahmins then became seized with old age.

When they had thus attained old age, O fair-complexioned one, / though coaxed with boons by the great-souled Śaṃkara,

they chose no other boon except the darśana of the liṅga.

Knowing the firm resolve of all of them, the bull-bannered [god], / becoming filled with compassion, showed them his own liṅga.

At that very time, having split open the earth, / that same liṅga suddenly arose, O fair-complexioned one.

And having seen it, all those seers went to heaven. / Now, when they had departed, Śakra became distressed in mind;

he covered it too with his hundred-jointed thunderbolt.

Since he came into the sight of those seers when they were in an aged state, / therefore it is celebrated on earth as Vṛddhaprabhāsa.

When it is seen, O lovely lady, even today a man endowed with devotion / obtains the fruit of the Rājasūya and Aśvamedha sacrifices.

Thus Prabhāsa named Vṛddha arose there; / a bull should be given there to a brahmin by those desiring the full fruit of the pilgrimage.

Thus ends the one hundred and ninety-fifth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Vṛddhaprabhāsa', in the first [part], 'Glory of the Prabhāsa Field', of the seventh [section], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.