Skandapurana 14.63

Pulastya said: / All this which you ask me has been recounted to you, / namely the māhātmya of Arbuda in brief, O great king. 1.

A detailed reckoning would take even hundreds of years; / innumerable are the sacred fords and holy shrines here, / and at every step there are dwellings built by the great seers. 2.

There is no such sacred ford, no such perfection, no such tree, O lord of the earth, / no such river, no such lord of gods, whose presence is not found there. 3.

Those who dwell on the charming Arbuda mountain, O great king, / are truly performers of meritorious deeds; they do not reside in heaven. 4.

What is the purpose of his life, what is the purpose of riches, what is the purpose of whispered prayers, O king, / for the dull-witted one who does not see Mount Arbuda completely? 5.

Even worms, moths, beasts, birds, animals of the wild, / sweat-born, egg-born, sprout-born, and womb-born creatures, 6.

if they die upon it, O great king, whether devoid of desire or with desire, / they attain union with Śiva, free from old age and death. 7.

And whatever person endowed with faith constantly hears this purāṇa / of Arbuda, O great king, he obtains the fruit of the pilgrimage. 8.

Therefore, with every effort one should undertake the pilgrimage there, / whoever desires perfection for oneself in this world and in the next. 9.

Thus ends the sixty-third chapter, named 'Description of the Reward for Hearing the Māhātmya of Arbudakhaṇḍa,' in the third [section], the Arbudakhaṇḍa, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa comprising eighty-one thousand verses. 63.

Thus ends the third Arbudakhaṇḍa in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa. 7 - 3.