Skandapurana 16.140

Then, O great goddess, one should go to the river Citrapathā, / situated near the Brahmakuṇḍa, amidst Citrāditya. 1

And when Citra, the very wise, was carried away in his body / by Yama's messengers devoted to Yama's command, O beloved of the gods, 2

his sister, who was there, learning of this and grieving, / that sister of the noble-souled one, having then become the river Citrā, 3

entered the ocean, O goddess, searching for her brother. / Then the twice-born named her Citrapathā. 4

Thus that river was born there, O fair-complexioned lady. 5

A man who bathes in it and beholds Citrāditya / goes to the supreme abode where the divine sun resides. 6

In this Kali age, O goddess, the river has disappeared; / it can be seen in the rainy season, and its darśana is difficult to obtain. 7

Bathing and giving especially destroy all sins. 8

Whether one has eaten or not eaten, by night or by day, / on a festival day or at an improper time, whether pure or impure, 9

whenever the river Citrapathā is seen there, O dear one, / its darśana is the authority; time is of no consequence there. 10

Beholding the river, O great goddess, the ancestors residing in heaven / sing Sāman hymns there, dance, and laugh: 11

“Someone born of our lineage will perform a śrāddha here / and bring us joy for as long as a kalpa!” 12

Knowing this, a man should perform bathing and a śrāddha there / for the destruction of all sins and for the pleasure of the ancestors. 13

Thus has this been told, O goddess, how the river Citrapathā, / having reached the Prabhāsa sacred field, remains destroying sins. 14

Thus ends the one hundred and fortieth chapter, entitled “Description of the Greatness of the River Citrapathā,” in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. 140