Somanath Temple Through The Ages
“It is a Swayambhu Linga of great prowess, as bright as the disc of the Sun, surrounded by a serpent, of the size of the egg of a hen, called the Sarsa Linga and lodged underground.”…. Prabhasa Khana of the Skanda Purana.
Somanatha, as a Jyotirlinga, has been given a premier place in our religious literature. From Mahabharata downwards, the Puranic literature has referred to Prabhasa with reverence not shown to any other center of pilgrimage.