Skandapurana 16.93

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O fair-hipped lady, to Hara Mahākāleśvara, / situated to the north of Aghoreśa, slightly towards the northwest,

at thirty bow-lengths, O goddess; it is heard as destroying sins. / In the previous Kṛtayuga, O goddess, it was known as Citrāṅgadeśvara.

In the Kali age, O goddess, its name is proclaimed as Mahākāleśvara; / the great Rudra whose form is Time is established in that liṅga,

the guru of the moving and unmoving, manifest, the destroyer of the arrogance of gods and demons, / who, in the form of the sun, devours everything in the cosmic egg, O beloved.

That god of great splendor is stationed in that liṅga, O goddess; / whoever worships at dawn that liṅga dear to me with devotion / by means of the six-syllable mantra, instantly conquers death.

Especially on the eighth day of the dark fortnight, whoever duly burns / bdellium combined with ghee there, having performed worship at nightfall,

Bhairava forgives a thousand transgressions of his; / the great seers praise the gift of a cow in that place.

The giver of a cow certainly delivers ten ancestors and ten descendants; / whoever chants the Śatarudriya in the southern part of the god...

A person delivers the group of his paternal ancestors and the group of his maternal ancestors. / Whatever sin [was committed] in childhood, old age, or youth, / he washes it all away having seen Hara, the Lord of Time (Kāleśvara).

And he who prepares a blanket of clarified butter when the northern solstice arrives / does not attain a dreadful rebirth again in this world of transmigratory existence.

He is not born distressed, poor, or unfortunate / throughout seven births, simply by the darśana of the great Lord of Time (Mahākāleśa).

He is born into a flourishing family endowed with wealth and grain, / and his devotion to the worship of Mahākāleśvara arises yet again.

Thus has the great Lord of Time (Mahākāleśvara) been described in brief, O beloved. / Formerly, O goddess, the attendant Citrāṅgada worshipped him

for a thousand celestial years—that very Mahākāleśvara; / therefore it became famous on the surface of the earth under the name Citrāṅgadeśvara.

Thus ends the ninety-third chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Mahākāleśvara', in the Praise of the Eleven Rudras, in the first [part], the 'Glory of Prabhāsakṣetra', of the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses.