Skandapurana 16.198

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the excellent Mahāprabhāsa, / to the south of Jalaprabhāsa, which blocks the path of Yama.

Hear its māhātmya, how it came into being on the surface of the earth.

Formerly, in the Tretā age, O goddess, it was known as the Sparśaliṅga, / divine, full of fiery splendour, granting liberation to men merely by touch.

Then, at a certain time, O dear one, it was covered with the thunderbolt / by Indra, who descended to the earth, seized with fear, O beautiful lady.

The heat arising from it, O goddess, could not be restrained as it issued forth; / having the tip of its flames extending over a hundred million [yojanas], bearing the form of a liṅga,

taking its stand in the Prabhāsakṣetra, it split [the earth] and became manifest. / When it was blocked with the thunderbolt, O goddess, it cleaved the earth,

and, accompanied by masses of smoke, pervaded that world. / Thereupon the entire triple world was thrown into distress by the flames.

Then all the hosts of gods and the seers who had mastered the Vedas / praised the Moon-crested Lord with diverse hymns declared in the Vedas:

“Withdraw, O best of gods, your fiery splendour composed of burning heat! / The entire triple world, with all moving and unmoving beings, is thus distraught. / Protect us, O lord of gods, before it goes to total dissolution!”

Īśvara said: / As the dwellers in heaven were speaking thus, O sovereign of the gods, / that splendour entered into five parts, pervading the entire triple world.

In the form of the five Prabhāsas, it split open the earth there; / along the path by which it issued forth, that great splendour [arose].

There a stone door was placed by them in an auspicious spot, O dear one; / and when this aperture was covered, the smoke ceased to exist.

The worlds became at ease, and the splendour remained right there. / Directed thus by me, they installed the liṅga there.

That great splendour then took rest there, O queen of gods; / therefore it is praised as Mahāprabhāsa by the gods and Dānavas.

He who worships that liṅga with devotion with diverse kinds of flowers / goes to the supreme abode, free from old age and death.

When it is beheld, O ruler of the gods, a mortal is freed from sins; / he obtains his wished-for desires and whatever is cherished in his heart, O dear one.

Gold should be given there to a brahmin of commended vows; / and a gift of cows should be given there according to rule to a twice-born person.

Having done so, O great goddess, one obtains the fruit of one’s birth; / one will obtain the abundant fruit of the Rājasūya and Aśvamedha sacrifices.

Thus ends the one hundred and ninety-eighth chapter, named “Description of the Māhātmya of the Fifth Prabhāsakṣetra,” in the first [sub-section], Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].