The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.s1.134

v2.c17.s1.134

Crossing the Mahānadī, Indradyumna arrived the next day at the Mango Forest, and there he and the king of Utkala paid their devotions to the presiding divinity of the place—the noblest of Liṅgams. In describing this place, the author takes the opportunity to give an account of its origin, very different from what is stated in the *Śiva* and the *Ekāmra Purāṇas*, (*ante*, p. [63]). It was not Śiva who sought the place as a pleasant retreat, but Viṣṇu who expelled him from Benares, and assigned him the Mango Forest as a place of his exile. Mahādeva made himself manifest to the pious king, and advised him as to what he should do at Puruṣottama.