Skandapurana 16.139

Īśvara said:
Then, O great goddess, one should go to the peerless Citrāditya,
on its southern side, near the Brahmakuṇḍa. (1)

He possesses great power, O ruler of gods, and destroys all poverty.
Formerly on earth, O goddess, there was a righteous man named Mitra,
who perceived the essence of all beings, always intent on the welfare of all creatures. (2)

Two children were born to him as he approached [his wife] during the fertile season:
a son of supreme splendor named Citra, O fair-faced one, (3)

and likewise a daughter was born, Citrā, richly endowed with beauty and adorned with good conduct. (4)

As soon as these two were born, Mitra attained dissolution into the five elements.
Then his excellent wife entered the fire along with him. (5)

Then those two helpless children, reared by seers,
grew up in the great forest, remaining committed to vows even as children. (6)

Having arrived at the sacred field of Prabhāsa, they undertook supreme austerity,
having installed the great god, the sun, the stealer of waters. (7)

The righteous-minded [Citra] worshipped him with incenses, garlands, and ointments;
and with the sixty-eight names declared by Vasiṣṭha,
he praised the lord, the god of gods, Sūrya, with palms joined. (8)

Citra said:
Bowing with my head to the god, the sun, lord of the sky,
the primal god, lord of the universe, destroyer of sins, dispeller of disease, (9)

the thousand-eyed, thousand-rayed one, shining with the light of a thousand beams— (10)

I shall praise him who is endowed with secret names:
Muṇḍīrasvāmin in the morning at the confluence of the Gaṅgā and the ocean;
Kālapriya at midday, resting upon the bank of the Yamunā; (11)

and Mūlasthāna at sunset, situated on the bank of the Candrabhāgā,
where Sāmba himself, dedicated to fasting, achieved perfection; (12)

Lohitākṣa in Vārāṇasī; Bṛhanmukha in Gobhilākṣa;
Pratiṣṭhāna in Prayāga; the immensely brilliant Vṛddhāditya; (13)

Dvādaśāditya at Koṭyakṣa; Gaṅgāditya at Caturghaṭa;
and in Naimiṣa, Goghna; Bhadra situated in Bhadrapuṭa; (14)

Vijayāditya in Jayā; Svarṇavetasa in Prabhāsa;
Sāmanta in Kurukṣetra; and Trimantra in Ilāvṛta; (15)

Kramaṇāditya on Mahendra; in Ṛṇa they know him as Siddheśvara;
Padmabodha in Kauśāmbī; Divākara in Brahmabāhu; (16)

Caṇḍakānti in Kedāra; and Timirāpaha in Nitya;
Śivadvāra on the path of the Gaṅgā; the Aditya in Bhūpradīpana; (17)

Haṃsa on the bank of the Sarasvatī; Viśvāmitra in Pṛthūdaka;
Naradvīpa in Ujjayinī; Amaladyuti in Siddhā; (18)

Sūrya in Kuntīkumāra; and Vibhāvasu in Pañcanada;
Vimalāditya in Mathurā; and Saṃjñāditya in Saṃjñika; (19)

Mārtaṇḍa in Śrīkaṇṭha; Daśaka is remembered in Daśārṇa;
the divine Gopati in Godhana; and Karṇa in the desert. (20)

And Puṣpa in Devapura, Keśavārka in Lohita, / Śārdūla in Vaidiśa, and the Dweller in Vāruṇa at the Śoṇa, 21

the one named Sāmba in Vardhamāna, Śubhaṃkara in Kāmarūpa, / Mihira in Kānyakubja, and Mandāra in Puṇyavardhana, 22

Kṣobhaṇāditya in Gandhāra, Amaradyuti in Laṅkā, / Karṇāditya in Campā, and Śubhadarśin in Prabodha, 23

Pārvatya in Dvārāvatī, Himāpaha in Himavant, / Mahātejas in Lauhitya, and Dhūrjaṭi in Amalāṅga, 24

the one named Kumāra in Rohika, Padmasambhava in Padmā, / Dharmāditya in Lāṭā; and in Mardaka they know Sthavira, 25

Sukhaprada in Kauberī, Gopati in Kosala, / Padmadeva in Kauṅkaṇa, and Tāpana on Mount Vindhya, 26

Tvaṣṭṛ in Kāśmīra, Ratnasambhava in Caritra, / Hemagarbhastha in Puṣkara, and one should know Sūrya in Gabhastika, 27

Muddhāla in Prakāśā, Prabhākara in Tīrthagrāma, / Rillakāditya in Kāmpilya, and Dhanavāsin in Dhanaka, 28

Anala on the bank of the Narmadā, whose movement everywhere is supreme; / [these are] the sixty-eight [forms] of the god Bhāskara of boundless splendor. 29

A capable, pure man who rises early in the morning and constantly / recites or hears this is freed from all sins. 30

One seeking a kingdom obtains a kingdom; one seeking wealth obtains wealth; / one seeking sons obtains sons; one seeking happiness obtains happiness. 31

One afflicted with disease is freed from disease; one bound is freed from bondage; / whatever desires a mortal prays for, those very desires he obtains. 32

Īśvara said: / As Citra of pure soul was thus praising him, / the lord of a thousand rays, the all-pervading one, was pleased after a long time. 33

He said: “Child, may good fortune be yours! Choose a boon, O you of noble vows.” 34

He said: “If, O lord of sharp rays, you are pleased with me, / lead me to proficiency in all tasks and likewise to wisdom.” 35

“So be it, so be it,” the sun promised, O fair-complexioned lady. / Then Citra, born of the solar line, attained omniscience. 36

Knowing him to be endowed with supreme intellect, Dharmarāja, / being wise, thought: “If this one were to become my scribe, 37

then all success would be mine, and my satisfaction would be supreme.” / As Dharmarāja was thus contemplating, O passionate woman, 38

Citra went to the Agnitīrtha to bathe in the salt water; / as he was entering there, he was carried off by the servants of Yama, 39

bodily, O great goddess, by those devoted to Yama’s command. / He became the recorder of the deeds of the universe named Citragupta. 40

Then, O fair-faced lady, he became known in the world by the name Citrāditya. 41

The man who worships him on the seventh day with regulated food, / for seven births poverty does not arise for him, nor sorrow. 42

Right there a horse should be given, as well as a sword with its sheath, / and gold to a brahmin; thus one obtains the fruit of the pilgrimage. 43

Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-ninth chapter, entitled “Description of the Greatness of Citrāditya,” in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. 139