Skandapurana 16.75

Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the liṅga Śākalakaleśvara, / situated sixty bow-lengths to the southwest of Śākalyeśvara.

It is remembered as enriched with names across the four ages, the destroyer of sins: / formerly, its name was Kāmeśvara; in the Tretā age, Pulaheśvara;

in the Dvāpara age, Siddhinātha; and in the Kali age, it is remembered as Nāradeśa; / likewise, Kalakaleśa is celebrated as its name.

And when the Sarasvatī, that highly fortunate and best of rivers, / arrived at the ocean of great religious merit, delighted and satisfied, / [it was then,] through the roaring sound of the water of that great-souled ocean,

that the gods together with the gandharvas, the seers, siddhas, and cāraṇas, / raised a tumultuous clamor there that caused the hair to stand on end.

Through that great sound, my form arose; / therefore the liṅga was proclaimed by the name Kalakaleśvara.

Thus has the former account been told to you, the reason for its name. / But now, how it became Kalakaleśvara once again, / that I shall relate to you; listen with a single-minded focus, O beloved!

Formerly, at the junction of the Dvāpara age, when the Kali age had set in, / Nārada came to the auspicious sacred field of Prabhāsa / and performed severe austerity there near the liṅga.

Then, when a hundred years had elapsed, having worshipped the one whose banner bears the bull, / and having attained the musical lore of the gandharvas adorned with the seven notes, O ruler of gods,

he, being delighted in mind, near that liṅga / performed the great sacrifice celebrated as the Pauṇḍarīka.

For the satisfaction of the god of gods, he, ever self-controlled, / summoned thousands of seers from the world of Brahmā.

Then, having gathered the provisions and being equipped with the sacrificial implements, / having prepared the pits and all else, he began the sacrificial rite.

Then, when that sacrifice had reached completion, O fair-faced one,

the brahmins residing in the sacred field arrived there / for the sacrificial fee, O great goddess, by hundreds and thousands.

Then he, filled with curiosity, indeed for the purpose of their fighting, / cast jewels and gold down upon the ground.

Then all those brahmins, fighting with one another / in their desire to seize much wealth, made a tremendous uproar.

Some were stripped naked, O goddess, having abandoned their sacrificial cords; / some were seen with disheveled hair, while others were bathed in blood.

Others struck one another with their fists and feet; / so it was there when that wealth was scattered by Nārada.

Then, in the absence of wealth, those destitute brahmins / endowed with learning and modesty who were battered by the [other] brahmins,

exceedingly calm, said to him as he smiled again and again: / “Since this gift was given by you, O sage, for the sake of strife,

abandoning those endowed with learning and disregarding sacrificial injunction, / therefore, O sage, its name is renowned as Kalakaleśvara.

By that name, O best of the twice-born, this liṅga shall be known.” / For this reason, O goddess, it became Kalakaleśvara.

The man who, after bathing it with devotion, circumambulates it thrice, / will go to the world of Rudra through your grace, without a doubt.

He who worships it with devotion, with perfumes, flowers, and unguents, / having given gold to the twice-born, shall go to the supreme abode.

Thus ends the seventy-fifth chapter, named “The Description of the Māhātmya of Kalakaleśvara,” in the first [sub-section], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].