Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 13
इति संक्षेपतः प्रोक्तं महाकालेश्वरं प्रिये । चित्रांगदो गणो देवि तेन चाराधितं पुरा
iti saṃkṣepataḥ proktaṃ mahākāleśvaraṃ priye | citrāṃgado gaṇo devi tena cārādhitaṃ purā
इति संक्षेपतः प्रिये महाकालेश्वरस्य माहात्म्यं प्रोक्तम्। देवि, पुरा चित्राङ्गद इति गणः तं भक्त्या समाराधयामास।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Mahākāleśvara (later famed as Citrāṅgadeśvara)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva narrates to Devī the brief greatness of Mahākāleśvara; in the background a gaṇa named Citrāṅgada performs devoted worship before a radiant liṅga in the Prabhāsa landscape.
FAQs
Sacred sites gain authority through exemplary worshippers; even Śiva’s gaṇas model devotion to the kṣetra-deity.
Mahākāleśvara in Prabhāsa Kṣetra.
No new prescription—this verse introduces a traditional precedent: Citrāṅgada’s ārādhana (propitiatory worship).