Skandapurana 16.48

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the liṅga installed by Śukra, / removing all sins, O goddess, to the west of Vibhūtīśvara,

situated not very far from there, fashioned by Śukra himself, / where he obtained the lore of reviving the dead through the power of Rudra.

Having performed very dreadful austerity for a thousand years, / having propitiated Virūpākṣa, the wise one obtained the status of a planet.

He, swallowed by Śambhu for the accomplishment of the purpose of the gods, / performed very difficult austerity while dwelling within his belly.

For fully ten thousand years, Maheśvara was brought to satisfaction. / Then he was quickly expelled by Śambhu through the path of semen.

Thereupon, the name 'Śukra' came to be for that great-souled Bhārgava. / He who worships that liṅga having made his mind steadfast,

and recites the Mṛtyuñjaya mantra a hundred thousand times, attains his desired aim.

Having seen or touched it, one is freed from the sin / extending from birth to death, through his grace, O lovely woman.

Whatever sovereignty for reviving the dead, beginning with the power of becoming small, / he attains, there is no doubt, whose devotion is very firm.

Having bathed the god installed by Śukra with fivefold ambrosia / and worshipped with fragrant flowers, he does not suffer affliction caused by Śukra.

Thus the entire māhātmya dedicated to the deity Śukra / has been told to you in summary, O woman of beautiful hips; heard, it removes sin and fear.

Thus in the glorious Skanda Purāṇa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand [verses], in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the first Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, the forty-eighth chapter named 'Description of the Śukreśvara-māhātmya'.