Skandapurana 16.333

Īśvara said: / To the east of Balabhadra, there was the excellent river. / An installation of a liṅga of Bala named Durvāseśvara was established. / 1

Seen, it pacifies all sins and brings all happiness. / Having bathed, whoever makes an offering of rice-balls on the new moon day / 2

will bring satisfaction to the ancestors for a full hundred crore kalpas. / Having worshiped the one named Durvāseśvara there according to rule, / 3

having attained the fruit of ten million sacrifices, he will obtain all desires. / Many liṅgas were established there by the seers. / 4

Having seen, touched, and worshiped [them], one becomes freed from all sins. / Thus has been recounted, O goddess, the sacred field and the rest in order, / 5

from the west of Bhadrā to the east, in succession from the beginning. / Heard, it pacifies sins and grants the fruit of ten million sacrifices. / 6

Now the peripheral place of the field is called Madhumatī. / To the south-west of that is the place called Khaṇḍaghaṭā. / 7

There is the god Piṅgeśvara, near the seashore. / There is a group of seven wells where the hands of the ancestors / are seen even today, O queen of the gods, on every conjunction. / 8

Performing a śrāddha there, a man obtains fruit ten million times that of Gayā; / there is no doubt about this, especially if it occurs on a Monday new moon. / 9

Right there, not very far away, the confluence of Bhadrā is commemorated. / The eastern confluence is proclaimed following the western confluence. / 10

Whatever merit one obtains, O goddess, at the eastern and western confluences / of Gaṅgā and the ocean, one obtains that at the confluence of Bhadrā. / 11

Thus ends the three hundred thirty-third chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Piṅgeśvara and Bhadrā at Madhumatī in the Māhātmya of Taptodakasvāmin,' in the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, the first [part] of the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, the seventh [section] of the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa. // 333