Skandapurana 16.116

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the goddess who brings good fortune, / renowned as Kuṇḍeśvarī, in the north-west direction from Puṣkara,

at a distance of thirty bows, O goddess, and south-west of Bhūtanātha; / she who subdues sins and destroys streams of poverty is situated there.

In her south-western direction, situated at fifteen bows, / is the pool named Śaṅkhodaka, which destroys all sins.

Having bathed there in the auspicious water, mortal men or a woman / should worship her, celebrated as Śaṅkhāvartā, O great goddess.

In the Kali age she is named Kuṇḍeśvarī, granting all happiness. / Formerly, O beloved goddess, [an Asura] named Śaṅkha was slain by Viṣṇu.

Taking his huge body shaped like a conch, / and filling it with sacred water, he came to the sacred field of Prabhāsa.

There he washed the conch and made a sacred ford of great brilliance; / there he blew the conch, which had a sound deep like thunderclouds.

At that great roar, the goddess came there / inquiring after the cause, coming near that pool. / Therefore she is celebrated as Kuṇḍeśvarī, and the pool is recorded as Śaṅkhodaka.

The man who worships her on the third lunar day in the month of Māgha, / or a woman endowed with devotion, reaches the station of Gaurī.

There a meal should be offered to a married couple by those desiring the fruit of the pilgrimage, / along with the gift of a bodice and fruit, and a meal for married women.

Thus ends the one hundred and sixteenth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Śaṅkhodaka and Kuṇḍeśvarī-Gaurī', in the first [part], the Glory of the Sacred Field of Prabhāsa, in the seventh [book], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Skandamahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.