Skandapurana 5.153

Sūta said: / The woman who, having bathed there in that noble pool, then gazes upon Pārvatī, / and then bathes in that auspicious sacred ford endowed with beauty, // 1

and looks upon Pārvatī again endowed with supreme faith, / is immediately freed entirely from [sins] ending in birth and death. // 2

Right there, O twice-born, is a female attendant of Pārvatī named Jayā; / by her a pool was made there near Gaurī's pool. // 3

The woman who performs ritual ablution there on the third lunar day / becomes endowed with sons and good fortune, and beloved of her husband. // 4

Likewise, there is another excellent pool there [called] Vijayākuṇḍa; / even a barren woman who has bathed there becomes endowed with sons. // 5

And she never sees any calamity befall her sons, O twice-born, / neither separation nor sorrow, even in a dream. // 6

Even a woman who has borne only one child, if she performs ritual ablution there, / obtains various sons and is exalted in the heavenly world. // 7

The seers said: / Among these sacred fords, O Sūta, is there a sacred ford that grants complete siddhi, / where from ritual ablution some bodily siddhi might occur anywhere? // 8

Sūta said: / Among the twenty-seven liṅgas that exist, O best of the twice-born, / complete siddhi was attained by one person, O twice-born: // 9

by one who possessed sattva and was endowed with the hero's vow, / on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of Āśvina, O best of the twice-born. // 6.154.10

He who properly performs worship of them at midnight, / and with devotion recites the aforesaid recitation, that excellent adept, in due order, // 11

having performed the placement of mantras on the body, should utter aloud the Kṣurikāsūkta. / Then, in front of them, having duly worshipped Śaṃkara, // 12

he should worship the guardians of the directions individually, one by one, with devotion. // 13

Then, having arrived, Gaṇeśa indeed, hideous and terrifying, / pot-bellied, naked, and having dark teeth, // 14

sword in hand, said: 'Engage in battle with me! / Giving up this deceit on earth, if you are a hero endowed with sattva!' // 15

Then, he who is quickly struck by him upon that provocation / is led by him with that very body to that realm // 16

where there is neither old age, nor death, nor sorrow at any time. / Likewise, at the seat of Citreśvarī, siddhi is proclaimed for one [adept]. // 17

He who worships the seat there on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of Māgha, / according to the procedure taught in the āgamas, accompanied by full faith, // 18

and afterwards, taking a skull filled with human flesh, [declares:] / 'Today I offer this human flesh for sale! // 19

Let someone take it for the price of siddhi, if there is anyone endowed with sattva!' / And then, O noble twice-born, whoever begs and accepts it, // 6.154.20

he, taking it, departs to where the lord Maheśvara is, / the liṅga born of Hāṭakeśvara, installed by Citraśarman. // 21

Standing in the midst of that place, the man who worships it / on Śivarātri at midnight with devotion, using a hundred thousand flowers, / immediately attains complete siddhi along with his physical body at that very moment. // 22

All the abodes of perfections in that sacred field are situated, / O best of the twice-born, for men committed to the hero's vow. // 23

The seers said: / The path to siddhi which has been proclaimed by you, O highly intelligent one, is tāmasic, / unsuitable for the foremost of brahmins, especially those learned in the Vedas. // 24

Tell, O Sūta, how liberation may be obtained, even after a long time, / by brahmins whose inner faculties are purified, who are free from injury to living beings. // 25

Speak the truth, O fortunate one, the means of liberation for the twice-born! // 26

Sūta said: / Likewise, [there is the liṅga] Ānandeśvara associated with the ten Rudras; / having bathed in the pool before it according to the rite seen in scripture, // 27

a mortal attains complete siddhi, difficult even for the gods to attain. / Having bathed in the month of Māgha in the pool of Viśvāmitra, a man, // 28

and offering a vessel of sesame seeds to a brahmin at dawn, / is completely freed from all sins and is exalted in the world of Brahmā. // 29

Even if he were of wicked conduct, eating all things and selling all things, / if, endowed with faith before the god named Suparṇa, // 6.154.30

a man undertakes fasting unto death, dedicated to fasting, / and gives up his life-breaths, that human is not born again. // 31

Thus the triad of siddhis beneficial to brahmins has been proclaimed, / sāttvic, O best of brahmins, praised even by the thirty [gods]. // 32

The other sacred fords and temples of deities there, / sages of praised vows have declared them to be bestowal of heaven. // 33

All this excellent māhātmya of the sacred field of the god Hāṭakeśvara, / destroying all wicked deeds, has been narrated to you. // 34

He who, having bathed in all the sacred fords here, looks with devotion / upon all the temples, is liberated, even if he is a sinner. // 35

This is proclaimed as the first section of the Purāṇa / composed by Kārtikeya, auspicious and removing all sin. // 36

And whoever proclaims this with devotion or listens attentively,
having enjoyed vast pleasures here, goes to heaven.

Whatever merit is found in all sacred fords, and whatever fruit through all gifts,
he obtains that full fruit, listening endowed with faith.

Indeed, having heard this Purāṇa, from sins arising in ten million births
he is freed, and he delivers a hundred families.

Then Vyāsa should be worshipped with gifts of garments and ornaments,
with gifts of cows, land, gold, portions of food, and various other offerings.

By him has Vyāsa Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana, the wise sage,
the son of Satyavatī in person, been thoroughly worshipped, by whom Vyāsa is well worshipped.

Whatever single syllable a guru may impart to a disciple,
there is no object on earth by giving which he could become free of debt.

This is purifying, longevity-granting, auspicious, and a great invocation of welfare,
hearing which one is freed from all sorrows; there is no doubt about this.

Thus ends the one hundred fifty-fourth chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Seat and Sacred Field of Citreśvarī,' in the Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field Māhātmya, in the sixth Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.