The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes Greatness of Vicitreshvara (Vicitra-ishvara) which is chapter 244 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 two hundred forty-fourth chapter of the Prabhasa-kshetra-mahatmya of the Prabhasa Khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 244 - Greatness of Vicitreśvara (Vicitra-īśvara)
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Īśvara said:
1-3. Thereafter, O great goddess, a pilgrim should go to the shrine of great, excellent god named Vicitreśvara. It is situated on the banks of Hiraṇyā and is destructive of great sins.
A severe penance was performed, O great goddess, by Vicitra, a clerk of Yama, and the great Liṅga pertaining to Rudra was installed.
By seeing the deity, O goddess, one can avoid meeting with Yama.