Skanda Purana 5.17

The seers said:
The origin of Camatkārapura has been heard from you, O noble-minded one.
Proclaim to us the extent of that sacred field, 1
and whatever auspicious sacred fords and temples are there,
together with their power—proclaim them all! 2

Sūta said:
The sacred field, the excellent Camatkārapura, O best of brahmins,
is five krośas in measure, both in length and in breadth. 3

To its east is Gayāśīrṣa; to the west is the foot of Hari;
and to the south and north are the two called Gokarṇeśvara. 4

In former times, O best of the twice-born, it was called Hāṭakeśvara;
that sacred field, celebrated in the world, destroys all sins. 5

From the time it was given to the brahmins by that great soul,
Camatkāra, that place attained renown by his name. 6

The brahmins said:
That which was spoken of by you as Gayāśiras to the east of it—
tell us its māhātmya in detail, O son of Sūta. 7

Sūta said:
Formerly there was a king of the Haihayas named Vidūratha,
who was indeed a master of giving, skilled, bringing destruction to the faction of his enemies. 8

Once, surrounded by his army, that king went out to hunt deer
in a forest filled with various trees and creepers, thronged with beasts of prey. 9

There he struck deer with arrows resembling venomous serpents,
as well as buffaloes, boars, hyenas, sambar, and ruru deer, 10

lions, tigers, and rutting elephants by the hundreds and thousands.
Then a deer, pierced by him with a bent-jointed arrow, 11

did not fall to the surface of the earth, [but] quickly ran away with the arrow.
Then, seized with wonder, he spurred an excellent horse behind it
with speed, bearing the velocity of the mind and the wind. 12

Then, abandoning his army, the king, eager to catch the deer, / entered another forest, terrible and frightful to the mind,

consisting mostly of thorny jujube bushes, crowded with groves of silk-cotton trees, / and filled with other dry trees bristling with thorns.

There the ground was entirely dry, waterless, covered in darkness, / full of crickets, owls, and vultures, and devoid of shade for one's head.

In the summer, when the sun was at its zenith, drawn by the deer, the king, / holding a spear in his hand and riding an excellent horse, then travelled a great distance.

Because of that, all his following servants, their mounts utterly exhausted, / overcome by hunger and thirst, and weary, collapsed at various spots.

Having fallen unconscious, they were devoured by lions, tigers, and others; / and others, unable to move, were devoured even while conscious.

Then the king too, overcome by hunger and thirst, / seeing that disaster had befallen him along with his servants,

seeking the end of the wilderness, spurred on that horse, / a noble steed endowed with every excellence, striking it with lashes of the whip.

Then that king was carried far along a difficult path, / devoid of all living creatures, by that horse swift as the wind.

Thus, while that king was panicked and unsteady, / that horse fell to the surface of the earth, and he too fell down from the horse.

Thus ends the seventeenth chapter, named 'Description of Vidūratha's Hunt', in the Hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmya, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [part] of the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.