Skandapurana 5.123.2

5.123.2

.. sūta uvāca .. ..
athānyadapi tatrāsti mukhāraṃ tīrthamuttamam ..
yatra te munayaḥ śreṣṭhā viprāścaureṇa saṃgatāḥ.....
yatra siddhiṃ samāpannaḥ sa caurastatprabhāvataḥ.
vālmīkiriti vikhyāto rāmāyaṇanibaṃdhakṛt..2..

Sūta said: / “Now there is another excellent sacred ford there, Mukhāra, / where those excellent sages and brahmins met with a thief, / [and] where, by its power, that thief attained perfection / and became famous as Vālmīki, the composer of the Rāmāyaṇa.”