Skandapurana 16.236

Then one should go, O great goddess, to the excellent Durvāsāditya, / where tapas was performed by Durvāsas for a thousand years, / taking no food, conquering hunger, intent on worshiping the Sun.

Thus after a great length of time, the Sun of divine radiance, the lord of people, / became visible to his sight and spoke to the great sage.

Sūrya said: / 'O brahmin, do not commit rashness; choose a boon, O one of good vows! / Even if unachievable, I will give what is in your heart.'

Durvāsas said: / 'If you are pleased with me, O god, and if I am worthy of a boon, / you must remain in this place as long as the earth stands.

May your fame go forth in the world under the name of Durvāsāditya here; / and that beautiful image of yours which has been installed by me,

in it let there be your very presence, O god, lord of the universe! / And may Yamunā, your daughter, establish her presence here, / as well as your son of great splendor, Dharmarāja of great might.'

Sūrya said: / 'All this that you have spoken, O best of sages, will come to pass. / Another crore of tīrthas, beginning with the Gaṅgā, O great sage,

will come to your place, surely by my word. / In this place, O brahmin, I shall dwell together with the deities.

Endowed with the glories and power of the Ādityas / who dwell within the womb of the cosmic egg, I shall dwell here, O great sage.

Whatever fruit is obtained simply by seeing a thousand suns, / that fruit is multiplied a crore of times by the darśana of Durvāsāditya.

All living beings shall also obtain the fruit of a crore of sacrifices.' / Having spoken thus, the Sun then remembered his daughter,

as well as King Dharma, the ruler of all living beings. / The moment she was remembered, having broken through the subterranean world, she rose up there, / that goddess in the form of a river, accompanied by a crore of tīrthas.

And the Lord Yama also, holding the staff of time, [arrived] then. / Filled with affection, the two of them spoke to the Sun, the witness of the universe.

Yama said: / 'Let the god, the lord of the universe, command me and Yamunā. / Whatever task is to be done in future purpose, that I will do without doubt.'

Sūta said: / '[The Sun said:] "In this kṣetra you must stay in your own form by my word, / and here protection should be provided diligently for sinful beings.

Devotees of the Sun, householder brahmins, must always be protected. / And you also, O Yamunā, together with a crore of tīrthas here,

dwell you, be well pleased in the place originating from Durvāsas." / Having spoken thus, the lord of the gods, there in the presence of Durvāsas,

disappeared while all the gods were looking on, the Lord. / Durvāsas then, delighted, as he looked upon his own hermitage,

at that moment Yamunā appeared by way of the path from Pātāla, / and the blessed Yama was seen there, assuming the form of the guardian of the field.'

Īśvara said: / Thus there came to be the excellent spring of Yamunā. / The pool is south of the Sun; there Dundubhi is to the east.

He is the guardian of the field, O great goddess, from whom comes the sound of a drum. / Having bathed there in the great pool, whoever offers libation to the ancestors,

the ancestors attain satisfaction for fifteen years. / By the giving of the rice ball, he brings satisfaction to the ancestors, / and for those who reside in hell, there shall be liberation, without doubt.

On the seventh day of the bright fortnight in the month of Māgha, self-restrained, / having worshiped Durvāsārka, one is freed from the sin of killing a brahmin.

Having bathed in the Yamunā pool in the month of Mādhava, a human / should worship with devotion the Sun, the ornament of the sky.

If he recites the thousand names in the presence of Durvāsāditya, / after six months a living creature is freed, even if the person is a slayer of a brahmin.

The most auspicious of all auspicious things, the destroyer of all sins, / who indeed would not worship the Sun named Durvāsāditya?

There is no fear whatsoever that is not pacified by this, / even by the darśana of the Sun of Durvāsas there, O beloved.

Likewise, all desires whatever are attained as wished. / It grants the fruit of sons to barren women and destroys fear for the frightened.

It grants prosperity to the poor and is the supreme medicine for lepers. / It removes evil spirits and demons from all children; / the darśana of Durvāsāditya pacifies great sins.

A golden horse should be given there dedicated to the Sun, O passionate woman, / to a brahmin endowed with Vedic learning; by that, the earth will have been given.

Whoever worships the god and Dundubhi, the guardian of the field, there, / that person becomes possessed of sons and cattle, wise, and prosperous.

No threefold fear arises for him, O fair-complexioned one. / The kṣetra of the Sun is considered to be just half a gavyūti there.

A creature destitute of devotion to the Sun should not enter there. / Thus this māhātmya dedicated to the Sun deity has been told to you, O goddess.

Thus ends the two hundred and thirty-sixth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Durvāsāditya', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.