The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes Greatness of Markandeshvara (Markanda-ishvara) which is chapter 361 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 three hundred sixty-first chapter of the Prabhasa-kshetra-mahatmya of the Prabhasa Khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 361 - Greatness of Mārkaṇḍeśvara (Mārkaṇḍa-īśvara)
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Īśvara said:
1-2. Thereafter, O goddess, one should go to Ghaṭikā-sthāna situated on the bank of Hiraṇyā. There formerly a sage (Mṛkaṇḍa) became Siddha within one Ghaṭi (24 minutes) by his Yoga of concentration.
He installed the Liṅga. It is Mārkaṇḍeśvara by name. By viewing and worshipping it quells all sins.