Skandapurana 4.66.47_1

4.66.47_1

.. skaṃda uvāva . ..
iti śaileśvaraṃ liṃgaṃ kathitaṃ te mahāmune ..
idānīṃ kathayiṣyāmi ratneśvarasamudbhavam .. 48..
śrutvā śaileśa māhātmyaṃ śraddhayā parayā naraḥ ..
pāpakaṃcukamutsṛjya śivalokamavāpnuyāt .. 149 ... ..
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ caturthe kāśākhaṃḍe uttarārdhe śaileśādi liṃganirṇayonāma ṣaṭṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 66 ..

Skanda said: / “Thus the Śaileśvara liṅga has been told to you, O great sage; / now I shall relate the origin of Ratneśvara. / Having heard the māhātmya of Śaileśa with supreme faith, a man, / casting off the slough of sin, attains the world of Śiva.” / Thus ends the sixty-sixth chapter, named “The Determination of Śaileśa and Other Liṅgas,” in the second half of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, in the fourth [book] of the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses.