Skandapurana 5.174

Sūta said: / While he was grieving thus, severely reproaching himself, / Brahmā came in person and spoke to him, O twice-born!

"You should not have any doubt on account of this son, O twice-born! / Through ignorance alone was this boy born to you, by the working of fate.

Yājñavalkya said: / Even so, O Lord, purification does not arise in my heart. / Therefore, O foremost of gods, declare an expiation for complete purification."

Brahmā said: / "If purification of your heart does not occur in any way, / then, O highly fortunate one, install a liṅga of the trident-bearing god.

Whatever sin a man commits out of ignorance or even knowingly, / such as the murder of a brahmin, or whatever may arise from killing a woman—

whoever builds a temple for Hara, even of five bricks, / that [sin] of his goes to destruction, like darkness at sunrise;

especially, O highly fortunate one, in that very holy sacred field, the source of Hāṭakeśvara, / which destroys all sins.

Where no sin exists even when the Kali age has arrived; / I too desire to perform a sacrifice there, O best of the twice-born!

I shall bring that sacred ford, Puṣkara, which is dear to me, / lest it go to ruin out of fear of the Kali age.

When the Kali age has arrived, all sacred fords / will go to ruin, O brahmin, except for this supreme sacred field."

Sūta said: / Having spoken thus, the four-faced one then vanished from sight. / Yājñavalkya too, hearing all the words of the Grandfather,

installed a liṅga, knowing that unexcelled sacred field, / and then spoke these words with a voice deep as a thundercloud:

"Whoever bathes this liṅga of mine with true devotion / on the eighth and the fourteenth [lunar day], his sin shall depart.

Whatever [sin] was committed with another's wife, or even committed with one's mother, / [this liṅga,] bathed and worshipped by others, shall wash away that sin.

When this day arrives, the sin born of that fortnight / which was committed out of ignorance shall depart from him."

From then on, O best of the twice-born, the auspicious Yājñavalkyeśvara / became famous in that sacred field named Hāṭakeśvara.

Thus ends the one hundred seventy-fifth chapter, entitled "Description of the Origin and Māhātmya of Yājñavalkyeśvara," in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [section], in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].