Skandapurana 16.246

Īśvara said:
Then one should go, O great goddess, to Piṅgalā, the destroyer of sins, / the river flowing to the ocean to the west of Ṛṣitīrtha.

From the sight of it, O goddess, a man becomes handsome. / Formerly, great seers arrived with the desire to behold Someśvara.

Reaching the sacred field of Prabhāsa, they settled on the riverbank— / southerners, O great goddess, dark-complexioned and misshapen.

Having bathed there in that excellent hermitage, they saw their own forms / resembling Kāma, and they all fell into supreme amazement.

Then, all of them together, with eyes wide open in wonder, [said]: / 'Since having bathed here we all attained a golden-brown complexion, / henceforth its name will consequently be Piṅgā.

Those who will bathe here endowed with supreme devotion— / no one in their lineage will ever become deformed.

From the sight of it a man shall obtain the fruit of a Pitṛmedha sacrifice; / by bathing [he gains] double the merit, and fourfold by offering libations;

innumerable is the fruit of him who performs a śrāddha here.' / Having spoken thus, O lady of excellent complexion, all those seers,

all those best of sages, divided among themselves that riverbank, / and made sacred fords all around, each the size of a sacred thread.

Thus ends the two hundred and forty-sixth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Piṅgā River,' in the first [part], 'Glory of the Prabhāsa Field,' of the seventh [book], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.