Skanda Purana 6.2.85.14
Skandapurāṇa 6.2.85.14
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6.2.85.14
13 atha kāmeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanama, tatra brahmaṇā muṣṭinirmāpaṇārthaṃ kāmamutpādya tasya dvādaśasthānāni dattvā śivopari kāmoddīpanārthaṃ preṣaṇam, śivena svatapaso vighnakāriṇaḥ kandarpasya bhasmakaraṇam, patināśaṃ jñātvā ratyā śokakaraṇam, tataḥ śivājñayā anaṃgībhūtasya kāmasya mahākālavane gamanam, tatra tapastaptvā liṃgasthāpanam, kāmeśvaraliṃgamāhātmyavarṇanama 89. 2
13. Now, the description of the māhātmya of Kāmeśvara: there, Brahmā, having created Kāma to fashion a handful [of creation] and assigned him twelve seats, sent him to arouse desire in Śiva; Śiva reduced to ashes Kandarpa, who had caused an obstacle to his tapas; upon learning of her husband's destruction, Rati's lamentation; then, by Śiva's command, the bodiless Kāma went to the Mahākāla forest; having performed tapas there, he installed a liṅga; the description of the māhātmya of the Kāmeśvara liṅga. (89.2)
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