Skandapurana 16.343

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the supreme Kapileśvara, / to the east of Śīrābhūṣaṇa and to the west of Koṭītīrtha, 1

to the south of Jaradgaveśa and north of the ocean; / this Kāpila sacred field is indeed not attained by men devoid of merit. 2

Where, O goddess, Kapila formerly performed great austerity, / having installed Maheśvara, for more than ten thousand years.

There the divine great river Kapiladhārā was invoked; / even today it is seen amidst the ocean by meritorious people.

Having bathed there, O great goddess, especially on Kapilāṣaṣṭhī, / one should give a brown cow there; one becomes a partaker of the fruit of ten million cows.

And this is remembered as an expiation for all sins; / having worshipped Kapileśvara, one obtains the fruit of [giving] ten million maidens.

The goddess said:
Great is my wonder, O Lord of gods, O Maheśvara, regarding Kapilāṣaṣṭhī; / I wish to hear the prescribed procedure, beginning with the mantras for gifts.

Īśvara said:
If in the course of a lifetime even one such sixth day [of the lunar fortnight] is attained by men, / endowed with [all] the conjunctions, what can I say, O goddess?

In the dark fortnight of Bhādrapada, if the sixth day falls on a Tuesday, / with Vyatīpāta and under Rohiṇī, that sixth day is remembered as Kapilā.

Having bathed in that sacred field, or at the auspicious Arkasthala, / with clay and white sesame seeds, at the auspicious confluence of Kapilā,

having completed one's bath and recitation, one should then offer water oblations to the Sun / with red sandalwood water and oleander flowers; / placing the vessel of oblation on the head, one should offer it with this mantra:

“Obeisance to the lord of the three worlds, O illuminator of the three worlds, / O one whose rays are the Vedas, obeisance to you! Accept the water oblation, obeisance be to you!”

Having circumambulated the Sun, and having worshipped Kapileśvara, / in an auspicious place smeared [with cow dung] and adorned with flowers and unhusked barley grains,

one should set up an unblemished pot filled with sandalwood water, / equipped with the five gems, and provided with dūrvā grass, flowers, and unhusked barley grains,

covered with a pair of red clothes, accompanied by a copper vessel, / [on] a chariot of gold leaf variegated with a single painting.

One should fashion an image of the Sun containing a pala of gold; / placing it upon the pot, one should worship it with fragrant pastes and flowers.

In the presence of Kapileśvara, in a pavilion consecrated with a fire offering, / one should worship the god Āditya by his names as declared:

“O Āditya, Bhāskara, Ravi, Bhānu, self-manifest Divākara, / Prabhākara, obeisance to you! Deliver me from the cycle of worldly existence!

Since you grant enjoyment and liberation, therefore bestow peace upon us!”

The prayer mantra:
“Obeisance, obeisance to you, bestower of boons, lord of the Ṛg, Sāman, and Yajur Vedas! / Obeisance be to the universal-formed one, obeisance be to the universal abode!”

“O goddess, your milk is nectar, pure and bestowing nourishment in this world; / by your grace, mortals are freed from all sins.

O goddess produced by Brahmā from the fire pit, O highly radiant one, / obeisance to you, O meritorious Kapilā, reverenced by all the gods!

O goddess consisting of all the gods, auspicious one consisting of all sacred fords, / lead me, the worshipping donor, personally to the world of Brahmā!”

The worship mantra:
Having thus worshipped the brown cow and the Sun situated on the pot, / one should give both to a brahmin learned in the Vedas.

To an expounder devoted to the Sun, one should give with this mantra:

“May the divine-formed Sun, the eye of the universe, the twelve-fold soul, / the god together with Kapilā, grant me liberation!

Since you, O Kapilā, are meritorious, the purifier of all the world, / given together with the Sun, become a granter of liberation to me!”

A priestly gift should be made with a pala [of gold], or with a quarter thereof; / according to one's capacity, one should bestow that cow accompanied by the priestly gift.

A person who performs the sixth day named Kapilā according to this rite, / that mortal obtains the fruit of a thousand horse sacrifices.

Whatever fruit is obtained at all sacred fords, whatever fruit in all gifts, / all that fruit he obtains who observes the Kapilā sixth day.

The fruit which is ten million-fold by giving ten million thousand, / or a hundred ten million brown cows on an eclipse day of the Sun [is obtained].

As many years as there are hairs on ten million cows, O fair-complexioned one, / for that long he resides in heaven who observes the Kapilā sixth day.

Whatever sin was accumulated in the past, knowingly or unknowingly, / all that goes to destruction—thus said the sage Kapila.

Thus ends the three hundred and forty-third chapter, entitled “Description of the Greatness of the Observance of Kapilāṣaṣṭhī in the Greatness of Kapiladhārā and Kapileśvara”, in the Greatness of the Prabhāsa Field, in the first [part] of the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand verses in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.