Skandapurana 16.294

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, east from the [shrine] of Kubera, / at a distance of five gavyūtis, O goddess, to the place named Puṣkara, / where, O great goddess, a fisherman, a killer of fish, attained perfection. (1)

The goddess said: / Tell me in full detail how he indeed attained perfection; / tell me, by your favor, O god of gods, Maheśvara! (2)

Īśvara said: / Listen to what happened long ago, O goddess, during the Svārociṣa Manvantara: / there was a certain wicked fisherman, a killer of fish. (3)

Once, roaming about, that sinner indeed went to Puṣkara. / He saw an abode of Śaṅkara covered with vines and trees. (4)

In the month of Māgha, afflicted by cold, carrying a wet net, / he climbed the temple, distressed, desiring to catch the warmth of the sun. (5)

Then, to dry that wet net by the rays of the sun, / he spread it out at that time upon the top of the temple's flagpole. (6)

Then, O goddess, from numbness he suddenly fell down from the temple. / He died all at once, O goddess, in that sacred field of Śiva. (7)

Since over a long period of time his net became weathered, / because of the net attached as a banner, it became auspicious on the temple. (8)

Then, by the majesty of the banner, he was born on earth as a ruler of men, / the wise one known as Ṛtadhvaja in the Saurāṣṭra region; / he indeed roamed the earth in a chariot with a gleaming banner-tip. (9)

His mind overwhelmed by sensual enjoyments, the valiant [king] ruled the kingdom. / Then he gave to Śambhu's temple a white, multicolored, / beautiful banner, and nothing else at all, that lord. (10)

Then the king, remembering his past birth, came to the Prabhāsakṣetra. / [He saw] the temple there equipped with the netting of the banner. (11)

He caused to be made a temple and implements for Śiva / for the god Ajogandha, who had been worshipped previously. (12)

He constantly worshipped that sin-destroying liṅga with devotion; / the noble-minded one ruled the kingdom for ten thousand years. (13)

Through the power of that liṅga he went to heaven when the time came. / Therefore, having gone there with diligent effort, one should worship the liṅga. (14)

Having bathed to the west in the Puṣkara pool that steals away sins, / where Brahmā previously worshipped with sacrifices accompanied by generous gifts— (15)

having summoned the sacred fords from Puṣkara, O lovely lady, / having deposited [them] in that pool near Ajogandha, / and having installed the great liṅga named Ajogandha; (16)

in that pool called Tripuṣkara, O great goddess, which destroys sins, / one should give a golden lotus there to an eminent brahmin. (17)

Having worshipped the god according to rule with scents, flowers, unbroken grains, and the like, / one is freed from all sins, even those acquired over seven births. (18)

Thus ends the two hundred and ninety-fourth chapter, named the Description of the Māhātmya of Ajogandheśvara in the Māhātmya of Puṣkara, in the first [part], the Māhātmya of the Prabhāsakṣetra, in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa. (294)