Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 9
तस्य मध्ये तु सुश्रोणि लिंगं पूर्वमुखं स्थितम् । तस्मिन्पाशुपताः सिद्धा अघोराद्या महर्षयः । अनेनैव शरीरेण गतास्ते शिवमन्दिरम्
tasya madhye tu suśroṇi liṃgaṃ pūrvamukhaṃ sthitam | tasminpāśupatāḥ siddhā aghorādyā maharṣayaḥ | anenaiva śarīreṇa gatāste śivamandiram
त्या वनाच्या मध्यभागी, हे सुश्रोणि! पूर्वाभिमुख लिंग स्थित आहे. तेथे अघोर आदि पाशुपत महर्षी सिद्ध झाले आणि याच देहासह ते शिवमंदिरास गेले।
Śiva (addressing Devī)
Tirtha: Pūrvamukha-liṅga in Śrīmukha-vana (Prabhāsa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī/Devī (addressed as Suśroṇi)
Scene: In the forest’s heart stands an east-facing liṅga at sunrise; Pāśupata sages (Aghora and others) complete their sādhana; a visionary moment shows them rising, still embodied, toward a luminous Śiva-mandira in the sky.
FAQs
Intense devotion and yogic discipline at a consecrated Liṅga can grant siddhi so complete it is described as reaching Śiva’s abode in the very body.
The east-facing Liṅga situated in the center of Śrīmukha-vana within Prabhāsa-kṣetra.
While no step-by-step ritual is listed, the verse centers on Pāśupata practice and Liṅga-upāsanā as the means to siddhi.