Skandapurana 16.69

The goddess said: / ‘The excellent liṅga celebrated as Gaurīśvara which was mentioned by you, / where does that liṅga stand, and what fruit does one obtain when it is worshipped?’

Īśvara said: / ‘Listen, O goddess, I shall proclaim the sin-destroying māhātmya / of the deity Gaurīśvara, who indeed grants all desires.

This penance grove, O goddess, renowned for Gaurī, is exceedingly splendid, / fifty-five bow-lengths in circumference all around.

In its center stands the goddess on one foot, engaged in austerity. / To the north of her, O goddess, situated slightly to the northeast,

at a distance of four bow-lengths, is the liṅga that dispels the fear of sin. / The devoted man who worships that liṅga with devotion, / especially on the eighth day of the dark fortnight, will be freed from sins.

They praise the gift of a cow here, and gold to an eminent twice-born; / especially the gift of food, for the pacification of all sins.

Whether a slayer of a cow, a slayer of a brahmin, or a committer of wicked deeds, / he is freed from all sins by the darśana of that liṅga.’

Thus ends the sixty-ninth chapter, named ‘Description of the Māhātmya of Gaurīśvara,’ in the first [sub-section], Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].