Skanda Purana 6.2.85.22

6.2.85.22

21 atha kukkuṭeśvaraliṃgamāhātmyavarṇanam, tatra kauśikākhyasya bhūpasya prāgjanmani nityaṃ kukkuṭabhakṣaṇāttāmracūḍadattaśāpena pratiniśi kukkuṭatvaprāptiḥ, tacchāpanāśārthaṃ mahākālavane pakṣiyonivimocanākhyaliṃgapūjanam, tena tasya kukkuṭatvaprāptinivṛttiḥ, kukkuṭeśvaraliṃgasthāpanam, kukkuṭeśvaraliṃgamāhātmyavarṇanam 95 2

21. Now, the description of the māhātmya of the Kukkuṭeśvara liṅga: there, a king named Kauśika, due to eating roosters daily in a previous birth, acquired the state of a rooster every night by a curse given by a cock; to dispel that curse, he worshipped the liṅga named 'Deliverer from the Womb of Birds' in the Mahākāla forest; thereby his attainment of the state of a rooster ceased; the installation of the Kukkuṭeśvara liṅga; the description of the māhātmya of the Kukkuṭeśvara liṅga. (95.2)