Skandapurana 5.279.2

5.279.2

1 maṃgalācaraṇam, sūtaśaunakasaṃvādārambhaḥ, tatra śaunakapraśnaṃ śrutvā tasyottaraṃ dātuṃ sūtena liṃgotpattivarṇanaprasaṃgena strīviyoginaḥ śivasya ṛṣyāśrame gamanavarṇanam, tatrarṣibhirdigaṃbaraṃ śivaṃ dṛṣṭvā tasmai śāpapradānam, tena śāpena śivasya tatrava liṃga-patanam, brahmaviṣṇvādibhiḥ śivastavanakaraṇam , tena tuṣṭena śaṃkareṇa liṃgapūjana- vidhikathanam, tato devairhāṭakeśvarakṣetre gatvā tatraiva tasya śivaliṃgasya sthāpanam, liṃgapūjanamāhātmyavarṇanam 9..... .. 1

1. Invocation of auspiciousness; commencement of the dialogue between Sūta and Śaunaka; hearing Śaunaka's question there, in order to give an answer to it, the description of Śiva, separated from his wife, going to the hermitage of the seers in the context of describing the origin of the liṅga; the seers seeing the sky-clad Śiva there and giving a curse to him; through that curse, the falling of Śiva's liṅga right there; the offering of praise to Śiva by Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and others; the explanation of the rules for worshiping the liṅga by Śaṃkara, who was pleased by that; then the gods going to the sacred field of Hāṭakeśvara and establishing that very Śivaliṅga there; description of the māhātmya of liṅga worship 9..... 1