Skanda Purana 6.1.72.26

6.1.72.26

24 sumatināmakabrāhmaṇasya kaiśikapatnyāṃ jātasyāgniśarmaṇaḥ kumārasyā'bhyāsatyāgavarṇanam, agniśarmakṛtaduṣṭasaṃgativarṇanam, nityaprāṇihiṃsanaśīlatvātsaptarṣīnāgatāndṛṣṭvā'gniśarmaṇā tadvadhopāyakaraṇam, atrivacanādgṛhaṃ gatvā tasya pāpabhāgitvena svaparivāraṃ prati praśnakaraṇam, tatastairgṛhasthitaiḥ pitrādibhiḥ pāpaphalabhogasyāsvīkaraṇaṃ śrutvā'gniśarmaṇā paścāttāpaṃ kṛtvā maharṣīnprati śaraṇaṃ gatvā prārthanākaraṇam,
tato'trimaharṣidattamantrasyopāsanātpāpaniṣkṛtivarṇanam, tataḥ kālāṃtareṇa valmīkasambhavādvālmīkiriti maharṣibhistasyābhidhānakaraṇam, tena vālmīkinā kuśasthalīṃ gatvā śivamārādhya svanāmnā liṃgasthāpanam, vālmīkīśvaramāhātmyavarṇanam 20 2

24. Description of the boy Agniśarman, born to the brahmin named Sumati through his wife Kaiśikī, abandoning his studies; description of the bad company kept by Agniśarman; because of his habitual harming of living beings, his devising a means to slay the seven seers upon seeing them arrive; his going home by the word of Atri and questioning his family regarding their sharing in his sin; then, upon hearing the refusal of his father and others living at home to experience the fruit of the sin, Agniśarman's repentance and seeking refuge and making a supplication to the great seers; then the description of his expiation from sin through worship with the mantra given by the great seer Atri; then, after a passage of time, the great seers giving him the name Vālmīki because of his emergence from an ant-hill; after that Vālmīki went to Kuśasthalī, worshipped Śiva, and installed a liṅga under his own name; description of the greatness of Vālmīkīśvara. 20 2