Skandapurana 6.3.109

Chapter 109

Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
From there, O king, one should go to the unsurpassed Cakratīrtha, / renowned as Senāpura, which destroys all sins.

For consecration to the generalship, by the discus-bearing God of gods / Mahāsena was brought along with the gods led by Indra,

for the slaughter of the Dānavas and the victory of the celestials. / Having gratified the foremost brahmins with gifts of land according to the prescribed rites,

and with the sounds of conches and kettledrums, and the beats of paṭaha-drums, / with vīṇās, flutes, mṛdaṅgas, and auspicious sounds of jhallarīs—

then, raising a dreadful roar, a Dānava arrogant with might / named Ruru came forward in order to disrupt the consecration,

filling indeed the ten directions with hosts of elephants, horses, chariots, and foot-soldiers. / There a great battle commenced with him, indeed, O Bhārata,

with javelins, spears, nooses, maces, swords, lances, chisels, / bhalla arrows, barbed arrows, iron shafts, and crowded with masses of headless trunks.

Then, having in a moment shattered the horses, chariots, and elephants of that enemy host with blows of arrows released from his bow, / the high-souled slayer of the throngs of enemies seized the discus.

And that blazing, sharp, terrifying discus, Sudarśana, in battle, / hurled then from the hand of the slayer of Madhu, severed the Daitya's head.

Seeing that sudden obstacle in the consecration, the six-faced one (Skanda), / abandoning his stay there, practiced immense austerity.

The discus, released by Hari the upholder of the world for the destruction [of the foe], / having cleft the Dānava into two pieces, fell into the clear water.

From then on, that sacred ford has been known as Cakratīrtha, / created by the One of Universal Form for the destruction of all sins.

A person who bathes at Cakratīrtha and worships the imperishable Lord / obtains the fruit of the Puṇḍarīka sacrifice.

And having bathed at that sacred ford, whoever worships auspicious brahmins / who are calm, self-restrained, and conquerors of anger, obtains a ten-million-fold reward.

Whoever abandons his own body with devotion at that sacred ford, / having died, goes to the world of Viṣṇu amidst auspicious shouts of victory and the like.

Sporting as he pleases, honored by gods and Gandharvas, / and having returned here again, he is born into an exalted family.

This meritorious, sin-removing, auspicious [sacred ford] that destroys sorrow / has been related to you, O fortunate one; hear yet another from me.

End of the one hundred and ninth chapter, named 'Description of the greatness of Cakratīrtha at Senāpura,' in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.