Skandapurana 5.259

Gālava said: / "Thus has the whole narrative of the Śālagrāma been told to you, / and the origin of Maheśvara, how he attained the state of a liṅga.

Therefore, the supreme form of the liṅga, and Hari residing in the Śālagrāma— / those men who worship [them] with devotion suffer no torments of pain.

When the Cāturmāsya arrives, one should worship the two of them especially; / worshipped without distinction, they bestow heaven and liberation.

The two gods, Hari and Hara, present in brahmins, fire, and cows, / those who worship with devotion, O noble Śūdra, to them Hari grants liberation.

Devoted to the Veda, one should perform the rites enjoined by the Veda, both sacrificial and charitable; / and the worship of the five deities (pañcāyatana), truthfulness, and lack of fickleness—

endowed with virtues such as discernment, that Śūdra attains the good path. / There is no celibacy or austerity other than contemplating the twelve-syllable mantra.

Without mantras, an excellent worship of the slayer of hell and other [evils] should be performed with the sixteen offerings; / and in like manner [worship] of the lord of the mountain's daughter should be performed, O noble Śūdra, which destroys great sins."

Brahmā said: / "As the good Śūdra and Gālava, surrounded by his disciples, / were conversing in this manner, that night came to an end.

Worshipped by him, that brahmin went swiftly to his own hermitage.

The mortal who hears this, reads it, or causes it to be read, / even a verse or the whole of it, has no loss of religious merit."

Thus ends the two hundred and sixtieth chapter in the story of Paijavana, in the praise of the Cāturmāsya, in the conversation between Brahmā and Nārada, in the story of the one who reclines on Śeṣa, in the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field, in the sixth Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.