Skanda Purana 5.16

Sūta said:
Therefore, with every effort, abandoning all other rites,
the wise should resort to the presence of Raktaśṛṅga. 1

What is the use of gifts? What of ritual codes? What of sacrifices? What even of vows?
One should with devotion resort to that sacred field arisen from Hāṭakeśvara. 2

The Agniṣṭoma and other sacrifices, all with full sacrificial fees,
do not equal a sixteenth part before that sacred field. 3

The Cāndrāyaṇa, Kṛcchra, and Sāṃtapana penances
do not equal a sixteenth part before that sacred field. 4

Prabhāsa and the other sacred fords, and likewise the Gaṅgā and other rivers,
do not equal a sixteenth part before that sacred field. 5

All gifts of land, all virtues such as compassion,
do not equal a sixteenth part before that sacred field. 6

Many royal seers reached perfection there in former times.
Beasts, birds, serpents, lions, tigers, deer, and others, 7

perished there by the power of Time, and even they reached the abode of the gods.
Whoever, even though devoid of vows or engaged in the work of farming, 8

dwells there, O brahmins, goes to heaven when dead.
Or what need is there of saying much, again and again, O best of the twice-born? 9

Let the supreme secret relating to that sacred field be heard:
Sacred fields and sacred fords purify human beings here by dwelling [there]. 10

The sacred field born of Hāṭakeśvara purifies even by remembrance,
how much more then by seeing [it], O brahmins, and especially by touching [it]! 11

Thus ends the sixteenth chapter, named "Description of the Excellence of the Fruit of Resorting to the Presence of Raktaśṛṅga," in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [section] in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa in eighty-one thousand verses.