Skandapurana 16.354

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the unexcelled Kardamāla, / a sacred ford renowned in the three worlds, which destroys all sins. (1)

When there was that terrible single ocean, when the moving and unmoving were destroyed, / when the moon and the burning sun were destroyed, and the celestial lights had dissolved, (2)

seeing the earth gone down to Rasātala, Lord Janārdana, / having assumed the form of a boar, O fair-faced lady, / having lifted the earth on his head with the tip of his tusk, established it in its proper place. (3)

Having lifted it up, the Blessed Lord Viṣṇu spoke these words: (4)

"Remaining in this very place, O goddess, you were lifted up by me. / My dwelling here shall always be permanent."

"Those who offer libations to the ancestors at Kardamāla, O fair-faced one, / by that their ancestors will be satisfied until the end of the kalpa, without doubt."

"If they perform a śrāddha there with vegetables, roots, or fruit, / a śrāddha will be [as good as] performed in all sacred fords, O auspicious one."

"When a person has bathed in this sacred ford and beholds me, / even insects, moths, and men who meet their death, / upon dying go to heaven through their merit, like twice-born [brahmins]."

"Then they are born in the [various] continents, rich in wealth and in the highest family. / The water that issued from your body when pierced by the tusk,"

"having bathed therein, O goddess, a man is not born into the womb of an animal."

Īśvara said: / Hear, O goddess, the wonder that truly took place there in ancient times. / A herd of deer, utterly terrified and tormented by hunters, / entered Kardamāla and instantly attained human form.

Then those hunters, seeing it with eyes wide with astonishment, / bewildered, questioned those humans, O fair-complexioned one:

"By which path has the herd of deer that came here departed?" / Then they said: "We who had the form of deer have attained human form;

this is the power of this sacred ford; we do not know the cause ourselves." / Thereupon those hunters cast away their bows and arrows, / bathed there, O highly fortunate one, and were freed from all sins.

Pārvatī said: / O Lord, tell me in detail the great glory of Kardamāla, / its origin, the rituals, and the boundaries of the sacred field in due order.

Īśvara said: / Hear, O goddess, the secret of the origin of Kardamāla, / hidden, the all-in-all of brahmin seers; you must not give it to anyone.

Formerly, in the terrible single ocean, when the moving and unmoving had perished, / when the moon, sun, and wind were destroyed, and light had dissolved into cosmic dissolution,

Brahmā saw this entire universe as a single ocean. / The earth, immersed in it, had sunk to the depths of Pātāla.

Then that sacrificial boar, assuming a body composed of sacrifice, / lifted up the entire earth with the tip of his tusk, O fair-faced one.

Īśvara said: / With the Vedas for his feet, the sacrificial post for his tusk, the sacrifices for his teeth, the sruc-ladle for his mouth, / with fire for his tongue, darbha grass for his hair, Brahmā for his head, of great austerity;

Īśvara said: / having day and night for his supreme eyes, adorned with the limbs of the Vedas and the śruti, / with ghee for his snout, the sruva-ladle for his mouth, having the great sound of the Sāmaveda chant;

his body the prāgvaṃśa hall, radiant, surrounded by matras and dīkṣās, / having sacrificial fees for his heart, an ascetic, the great majesty of the great soma sacrifice;

having the upākarma rite for the ornament of his lips, adorned with the pravargya circle, / his gait the paths of various Vedic meters, his strides following the order taught by the Veda;

becoming that sacrificial boar, he then lifted up the earth. / As he lifted the earth, the tip of his tusk emerged outwardly.

In that sacred field of Prabhāsa, [the earth] was smeared with mud / by the tip of that tusk; therefore, O goddess, it is remembered as Kardamāla.

The great basin where the tusk firmly stood is Daṇḍodbheda; / the water brought forth by that tusk is like an ablution in ten million Gaṅgā rivers.

Measuring one gavyūti there is the eternal sacred field of Viṣṇu. / Those who have gone to another land and die at Daṇḍodbheda / go to the world of Viṣṇu for as many thousand kalpas.

Whoever beholds the Boar at Kardamāla, O great goddess, / even if possessed of ten million acts of violence, he will attain the supreme state.

The sin committed in ten lifetimes is destroyed by the sight of him, O beloved; / whatever store of sins has been accumulated in a thousand other lifetimes,

upon seeing the Boar at Kardamāla, it will go to destruction. / Giving thousands of ten millions of gold coins and hundreds of ten millions of cows—

whatever merit one obtains [by that], one obtains by a single darśana of the Boar. / In the Kali yuga, which is exceedingly terrible and brings fear to living beings, / liberation is not attained anywhere else, except in the sacred field of the Boar.

This quintessential account has been declared briefly to you, O goddess, / the māhātmya of Kardamāla, which destroys all sins.

Thus ends the three hundred and fifty-third chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Kardamāla,' in the first [part], the Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].