Skandapurana 16.114

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to Viṣṇu, the destroyer of sins, / named Vāmanasvāmin, the destroyer of all wicked deeds,

recorded as twenty bow-lengths to the southwest of Puṣkara. / When Bali was bound, O goddess, by the all-powerful Viṣṇu,

at that time his right foot was placed there by him whose form is the universe; / the second on the peak of Meru, and the third in the sky, O beloved.

As far upwards as he cast it, that far the cosmic egg was pierced from a great distance / by the tip of his foot, and water gushed forth from it.

Then, rising just to his own knees, it reached the surface of the earth; / thence the Gaṅgā, flowing from Viṣṇu's foot, attained fame on earth.

First it reached Puṣkara; from Puṣkara [flowed] that great river. / The sky is called 'puṣkara', water is called 'puṣkara'; / therefore it is known as Puṣkara, the dwelling place of Prajāpati.

Having performed ritual ablution there, the person who sees the foot of Hari / goes to the supreme abode where the god Hari is himself.

By offering a funeral cake there, satisfaction lasts for ten million years / for the ancestors, O fair-hipped lady; indeed, Hari himself said this.

Here a verse was sung of old by the great seer Vasiṣṭha / upon seeing Vāmanasvāmin; listen to it with an attentive mind:

'Having performed ritual ablution in the Puṣkara sacred ford and then seen Viṣṇu's foot, / even having committed great sin, why should one grieve further?'

Whoever, restrained in vows, gives a pair of sandals to a brahmin there, / mounted on an excellent aerial vehicle, is honoured in the world of Viṣṇu.

Thus ends the one hundred and fourteenth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Vāmanasvāmin', in the first [part], the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Prabhāsa, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].