Skanda Purana 16.367.p119

16.367.p119

118 gopyādityatīrthamāhātmye sasutagopīsahitasya kṛṣṇasya prabhāse gamanam, tatra yādavaiḥ raivatakaṃ girimetya sarvatra dhvajacakrāṅkitabhūmikaraṇam, tathaiva śivaliṃgapūritabhūmidarśanam , tato hastapramāṇāṃ bhūbhikāṃ madhye madhye visṛjya tadantareṇa sarvatra prāsādādikaraṇam, kṛṣṇakalābhūtānāṃ ṣoḍaśagopīnāṃ nāmakathanam, tatraiva gopībhiḥ ṣoḍaśasahasrasaṃkhyākaramyagṛhanirmāṇakaraṇam , tatra ravisthāpanam, tasya gopyā-dityeti nāma dattvā sarveṣāṃ teṣāṃ sarvāsāṃ tāsāṃ ca dvārakāṃ pratyāgamanam, gopyā-
dityeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanama............... 98 1

118. In the māhātmya of the Gopyāditya sacred ford: Kṛṣṇa goes to Prabhāsa accompanied by the sons and cowherdesses (gopīs); there the Yādavas, having approached the Raivataka mountain, make the ground everywhere marked with banners and wheels (or emblems); likewise the beholding of ground filled with Śivaliṅgas; then leaving ground of a cubit's measure at intervals, constructing palaces and other structures everywhere between them; recounting of the names of the sixteen gopīs who are portions of Kṛṣṇa; right there, the construction of sixteen thousand delightful houses by the gopīs; the installation of Ravi (the Sun) there; giving him the name Gopyāditya, and the return of all those men and all those women to Dvārakā; description of the māhātmya of Gopyādityeśvara. 98 1