The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes Greatness of Mandavyeshvara (Mandavya-ishvara) which is chapter 179 of the English translation of the Skanda Purana, the largest of the eighteen Mahapuranas, preserving the ancient Indian society and Hindu traditions in an encyclopedic format, detailling on topics such as dharma (virtous lifestyle), cosmogony (creation of the universe), mythology (itihasa), genealogy (vamsha) etc. This is the one hundred seventy-ninth chapter of the Prabhasa-kshetra-mahatmya of the Prabhasa Khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 179 - Greatness of Māṇḍavyeśvara (Māṇḍavya-īśvara)
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Īśvara said:
1-2. Thereafter, O great goddess, a pilgrim should go to the sin-destroying Liṅga named Māṇḍavyeśvara. It is stationed within a distance of three Dhanus to the southern corner of Siddheśa. Even great sins are destroyed thereby.
A man who controls fully all senses and performs Jāgaraṇa and Pūjā on the fourteenth lunar day in the month of Māgha shall never be born again in the mortal world.