Skanda Purana 6.2.85.26

6.2.85.26

25 atha muktīśvaraliṃgamāhātmyavarṇanam, tatra mahākālasamīpasthe muktiliṃge trayodaśavarṣaparyaṃtaṃ nārāyaṇaṃ dhyāyato muktināmakaviprasyāgre'kasmātkasyacidvyādhasyāgamanam,
vipradarśanena liṃgadarśanena ca vyādhasya daurjanyaṃ gatvā sauṣṭhavaprāptivarṇanam, vyādhena jale sthitvā tapaścaraṇam, aṣṭākṣaramaṃtrajapena tasya muktiḥ, tatsthāne prāptasya kasyacidvyāghrasyāpi tanmaṃtraśravaṇena mokṣavarṇanam, vyāghreṇa pūrvajanmakathānakakathanapūrvakamātmanaḥ śāpakāraṇakathanama, tayorvyāghra-muktidvijayormahākālavane gamanam, tatra liṃgasthāpanam, muktīśvaraliṃgamāhātmyavarṇanamama, ...... 95 1

25. Now begins the description of the māhātmya of the Muktīśvara liṅga: There, before a brahmin named Mukti who was meditating upon Nārāyaṇa for thirteen years at the Muktiliṅga near Mahākāla, a hunter suddenly arrived; the description of how, by the darśana of the brahmin and the darśana of the liṅga, the hunter's wickedness vanished and he attained excellence; the hunter's performance of austerity while standing in water; his liberation through reciting the eight-syllable mantra; the description of the liberation of a tiger that arrived at that place also through hearing that mantra; the tiger's statement of the reason for his curse preceded by the narration of his previous birth; the departure of both the tiger and the twice-born Mukti to the Mahākālavana; the installation of a liṅga there; the description of the māhātmya of the Muktīśvara liṅga. ... 95.1