Skandapurana 16.10

Īśvara said: / I shall tell you another secret, O radiant one; / I will declare to you that which has been told only to anyone [truly worthy], O fair-faced one.

Brahmā is situated in the division of earth; Janārdana is in the division of waters; / Rudra is situated in the division of fire; and likewise Īśvara is in the division of wind;

Sadāśiva is directly situated in the place belonging to the division of ether.

Whatever sacred fords are indeed situated in whichever division, / of each [ford], without doubt, that very one is remembered as the presiding lord.

Chāgalaṇḍa, Dugaṇḍa, Mākoṭa, Maṇḍaleśvara, / Kāliñjara, Vana, Śaṅkukarṇa, Sthaleśvara,

and the renowned Śūleśvara are situated in the earth principle. / Hariścandra, Śrīśaila, Jalpeśa, Unmāntikeśvara,

Mahākāla, Madhyama, Kedāra, and Bhairava— / this group of eight holy [tīrthas] is situated in water, O fair-faced one.

Amareśa, Prabhāsa, Naimiṣa, Puṣkara, / Āṣāḍhi, Daṇḍi, Bhārabhūti, and Lāṅgala—

this primeval secret group of eight is established in the fire principle. / Gayā, Kurukṣetra, and the tīrtha Kanakhala,

Vimala, Aṭṭahāsa, Māhendra, and that named Bhīma— / this group of eight of the wind, more secret than the secret, has been spoken to you.

Vastrāpatha, Rudrakoṭi, Jyeṣṭheśvara, Mahālaya, / Gokarṇa, Rudrakarṇa, Varṇākhya, and that named Sthāpasa—

this group of eight holy [tīrthas] is situated in ether, O fair-faced one. / All these tīrthas corresponding to the principles have indeed been declared.

Whichever deity resides in whichever principle, that [tīrtha] indicates his greatness. / The great watery principle is exceedingly dear to Viṣṇu, O beloved.

Therefore he is remembered as reclining on water, called Nārāyaṇa according to sacred scripture. / The tīrthas belonging to the water principle which have been spoken by me to you,

they are certainly dear to Nārāyaṇa, O ruler of the gods. / And the watery principle is remembered as belonging to Prabhāsa.

There the divine Hari enters dissolution birth after birth. / He is Vāsudeva, subtle-souled, situated beyond what is beyond the highest.

He is Śiva, the supreme firmament, omnipresent, without beginning or end; / there is nothing higher than that in all the scriptures and Āgamas,

especially in the views of the Siddhāntas, Āgamas, and the Vedānta. / And in them he is indeed not distinct from me, O illustrious one.

In that place Hari is directly present visibly; / joined with four liṅgas, he is not recognized by anyone.

Whatever fruit is attained by lifelong practitioners of the orders of society and by vows for liberation, / one obtains that fruit from the darśana of Bhallukātīrtha.

That place measures merely a gocarma, circular all around. / Indeed, no one knows it without the scripture, O spirited lady.

Even today the equinox is observed there by men, O Pārvatī. / Five liṅgas are situated right there, some having five faces,

some the size of a hen's egg, and some exceedingly massive, / wrapped with serpents and marked with tridents.

From merely beholding them comes the fruit of worshipping ten million liṅgas. / Therefore this great sacred field is always frequented by Brahmā and the other [gods],

and by eminent brahmins learned in the Vedic scriptures, and by perfected ascetics. / Every month on the eighth day, and every month on the fourteenth,

or during an eclipse of the moon or the sun, and especially on the full-moon day of Kārttika, / the liṅgas situated in Prabhāsa are worshipped, O fair-faced lady.

At the Saṃnihitā pool in Kurukṣetra, along with tens of thousands of all sacred fords, / Puṣkara, Naimiṣa, and likewise Prayāga, together with Pṛthūdaka,

sixty thousand sacred fords and six billion [more] / will arrive at every full moon of Māgha at the confluence of the Sarasvatī and the ocean.

From the remembrance of that sacred ford and from reciting its name, / or even at the moment of death, one will cast off sin, O lady of good vows.

The essence of Ānarta, gentle, and the ornament of the world, / divine, possessing five rivers, meritorious, the primordial secret, highly prosperous,

named Siddharatnākara ('the ocean of perfections'), enclosed by the ocean, / the source of dharma, the support of arts, the inner sanctum of Śiva,

the dwelling place of all gods, and the destroyer of all sins— / such are the names of this sacred field in each kalpa, O dear one.

Know the secret [names] denoting its expanse and the like, O beautiful lady among goddesses: / In the first kalpa of old, O goddess, it was known as Pramodana.

Around it, Nandana; and beyond that, Śiva; / more transcendent than Śiva, Ugra; and beyond that again, Bhadrika;

Samindhana beyond that, and Kāmada beyond that; / Siddhida, Dharmajña, Vaiśvarūpa, and Muktida;

likewise Śrīpadmanābha, and Śrīvatsa of great splendour; / and likewise Pāpasaṃhāra, and Sarvakāmaprada;

Mokṣamārga, O slender-waisted lady, and likewise, O goddess, Sudarśana; / Dharmagarbha among the dharmas, and Prabhāsa, the destroyer of sin; / subsequent to this are the Utpalāvartikas.

That which is known as my inner sanctum in the middle of the sacred field, O goddess— / its names have been declared to you in succession, O goddess.

Having heard all the names and the māhātmya of the sacred field, / their desired perfection will come to pass, without a doubt.

For one reciting this great prosperity at the three junctures of the day, / the sin [accrued] in the interval between the twilight periods, day and night, is destroyed.

Even hypocrites of little intellect who dwell [there], / fools, and brahmins seeking a livelihood—even they, upon dying, go to heaven.

Within this sacred field, across twelve yojanas, / there are thousands of other secondary fields, O queen of gods.

Some are lotus-shaped, some shaped like barley grains, / hexagonal, triangular, and some rod-shaped,

shaped like a half-moon disc, or differentiated as quadrangles. / Deities beginning with Brahmā, O ruler, are situated in the middle of the sacred field.

Some measure half a yojana, some a quarter of that, / some the measure of a nivartana, some the measure of a staff,

some the measure of a gocarma, some the span of a bow, / and some merely the size of a sacred thread; they exist by the millions in Prabhāsa.

There is not even the eighth part of an inch in the space, O lotus-eyed lady, / in which there are not sacred fords, divine and in the sky.

Having reached Prabhāsa-kṣetra, they remain after dissolution. / The liṅga that is at Kedāra and that which is at Mahālaya, O goddess,

that situated at Madhyameśvara, and likewise Pāśupateśvara, / Śaṅkukarṇeśvara, and also Bhadreśvara,

Someśvara, then Aikāgra, Kāleśvara, Ajeśvara, / Bhairaveśvara, Īśāna, and likewise Kāyāvarohaṇa,

the meritorious Cāpaṭeśvara, and likewise Badarikāśrama, / Rudrakoṭi, Mahākoṭi, and auspicious Śrīparvata,

Kapālin the lord of gods, Karavīra, and then again / Omkāra of supreme merit, and Vaśiṣṭhāśrama— / where ten million Rudras of wish-assuming form are remembered, O goddess—

and whatever other meritorious places of mine there are on the earth's surface / dwell in Prabhāsa, placing Prayāga at their head.

The daughter of the sun on the north, and the ocean is recorded on the south; / this north-south dimension of this sacred field has been proclaimed.

East of Rukmiṇī and west of Taptatoyā; / this east-west dimension of Prabhāsa has been proclaimed.

Arriving within this interval, the sacred fords, O beautiful lady among goddesses, / extending from Pātāla to the cosmic cauldron, indeed dwell there.

Knowing thus, O great goddess, Hari, composed of all gods, / arrived at Prabhāsa-kṣetra and cast off his mortal body.

Those who hear this divine, awe-inspiring account of mine on festival days or at all times, / they too shall go, through my grace, to heaven, the dwelling of the virtuous.

Thus this wondrous, meritorious account has been told to you in its entirety, O goddess; / speak of what else is very dear to you, that I may tell [you of] that great fortune of sages.

Thus ends the tenth chapter, named 'The Description of the Supremacy of Prabhāsa-kṣetra over All Sacred Fields by Means of the Māhātmya of the Sacred Fords in Prabhāsa-kṣetra', in the first [sub-section], Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh [section], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.