Skanda Purana 15.7

Glorious Prahlāda said: / Then, O best of the twice-born, one should proceed to the great ocean named Rathāṅga, / where stones marked with discuses are seen, bestowing liberation,

by which the Lord of the world is worshipped every day by those endowed with devotion, / and Janārdana is ever beheld with unblinking eyes.

And that sacred ford which was beheld directly by Lord Kṛṣṇa with his own gaze, / is Hari's supreme sacred ford named Cakra, destroying all sins,

whose supreme fame is spread through the three worlds, both moving and unmoving, / and which is greater than Prayāga, purifying and bestowing liberation.

Where even the limbs of embodied beings marked by the discus / are worshipped by the gods within six months; of this there is no doubt.

Having seen which a man is freed from sin even by chance, / that sacred ford is considered the most purifying and supreme among all sacred fords.

Going there, O best of the twice-born, having washed feet with joy, / as well as hands and face, one should bow down prostrate like a staff again.

Having bowed down and taken an offering of water accompanied by the five gems, / along with flowers, unbroken grains, perfumes, fruits, gold, and fine sandalwood,

having taken the prepared offering, one should recite this mantra, / facing west, well-restrained, or facing the great ocean:

“Om, homage to you whose form is Viṣṇu, to the discus of Viṣṇu homage! / Accept the offering given by me, and grant all desires!”

“Agni is splendor, and Rudra brings joy; Viṣṇu, who implants the seed, is the navel of immortality.” / Uttering this true statement, O brahmins, one should then plunge into the lord of rivers [the ocean].

Taking wet clay fallen from the divine hand, O brahmins, / and placing it upon one's head, one should perform the ritual ablution according to rule.

And one should offer water-libations to the ancestors, gods, and men in due order; / having offered water-libations, and having sprinkled the sacrificial substance with devotion,

The fruit that is attained by properly sacrificing a thousand horse-sacrifices, / that is said [to be obtained] merely by a ritual ablution at Cakratīrtha, O best of the twice-born.

The fruit that is proclaimed at Prayāga for the worship of Mādhava on the full moon of Māgha, / that is said [to be obtained] merely by a ritual ablution at Cakratīrtha, O best of the twice-born.

And then, endowed with faith, one should cause a śrāddha to be performed for the ancestors: / [honouring] the Viśvedevas with gold, and likewise the ancestors with silver.

Having satisfied [them] with food, garments, and ornaments, / a gift should be given according to one's means to the poor, the blind, and the destitute.

Especially at Cakratīrtha, the best among sacred fords, O best of the twice-born, / one should give gifts of gems to please the Lord of the Universe.

One should give a cart yoked with oxen, furnished with all coverings, / and accompanied by utensils, [saying,] “May Viṣṇu be pleased with me!”

And having adorned a well-trained, well-tempered horse equipped with gear, / one should give it to a brahmin together with a priestly fee.

When this is done, O best of the twice-born, a person becomes one who has accomplished his duty; / his ancestors born of the three families attain liberation.

Those who have gone to the state of ghosts, and those who have become worms, / and those who are being cooked in the hell named Mahāraurava—

all of them attain satisfaction through the power of Cakratīrtha. / When a śrāddha is performed [here], O best of the twice-born, one obtains the fruit of a śrāddha at Gayā.

Whatever destination is for those devoted to their mothers, whatever destination is remembered for sacrificers, / a person obtains that after bathing at Cakratīrtha, O best of the twice-born.

A śrāddha is praised, O chiefs of brahmins, when the conjunction of the new moon arrives; / in a solar eclipse especially, it is considered equal in fruit to Kurukṣetra. / In śrāddha, ritual ablution, and gift-giving, as well as in water-libation to the ancestors,

Cakratīrtha is praised; no doubt should be entertained on this point.

Cakratīrtha is always purifying, O brahmins, without doubt. / A person who, having arrived on pilgrimage, performs a śrāddha,

worshipping Madhusūdana at Cakratīrtha, O best of the twice-born, / when the foremost brahmins are worshipped, obtains the presence of Viṣṇu.

Sin committed by speech, committed by action, or amassed by the mind— / merely by a ritual ablution that sin is destroyed; there is no doubt about this.

Thus ends the seventh chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Cakratīrtha Situated on the Bank of the Confluence of the Gomatī and the Ocean', in the Dvārakāmāhātmya, the fourth [sub-section], in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.