Skandapurana 16.161

Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to [the liṅga] situated to its south, / and sixteen bows northeast of Lakṣmaṇeśa, O beloved,

named Ananteśvara, consecrated by Ananta, / the king of serpents, O ruler of the gods, knowing it to be a purifying sacred field.

Whoever worships it, O goddess, on the fifth lunar day of the bright fortnight of Phālguna / by the ritual of five offerings, having conquered his food and mastered his senses,

hooded serpents do not bite him for fifteen years; / poison does not penetrate, O goddess, his body or his very skin.

Therefore, one should worship it with effort, and especially on the fifth [lunar day].

There, the Ananta-observance should be performed, accompanied by honey and milk-rice. / Milk-rice mixed with honey should be given as food to a brahmin.

Thus ends the one hundred sixty-first chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Ananteśvara', in the first [section,] the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [book,] the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].