Skandapurana 6.3.132

Chapter 132
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Then one should go, O best of kings, to the northern bank of the Narmadā, / to the sacred ford that removes all sins, named Vārāha by name.

There the god, the creator of the world, assuming the boar form, / remained for the welfare of the world, carrying [souls] across the ocean of worldly existence.

Whoever bathes at that sacred ford and worships the Supporter of the Earth / with specific perfumes and garlands, and auspicious cries of victory and the like,

intent upon fasting on the twelfth lunar day, O best of kings— / [keeping away from] Śūdras of sinful deeds, and likewise blind Piśācas;

since sin is transmitted through conversation, bodily contact, exhalation, and dining together, / one should therefore avoid them.

One should worship brahmins with devotion according to one's ability and according to rule; / a vigil should be observed there at night during the recitation, O Bhārata.

Those who, having bathed at that sacred ford at clear dawn, / look upon the teacher of the universe with anger conquered, are freed from all sins.

Just as serpents, on seeing Garuḍa, flee, abandoning their terrible burning venom, / even so sins quickly perish on seeing the face of him who has the form of a boar.

Just as darkness in the sky vanishes on seeing the sun, the foremost of gods, / even so insurmountable sins perish, O Pārtha, on seeing the face of the Supporter of the Earth.

What need is there for many mantras for one whose devotion is directed to Janārdana? / The mantra "Obeisance to Nārāyaṇa" accomplishes all aims.

Even a single obeisance offered to Kṛṣṇa is equal to the concluding bath of ten horse-sacrifices. / The performer of ten horse-sacrifices takes birth again, but one who bows to Kṛṣṇa is not [born] for rebirth.

Those great-souled ones with subdued senses who, meditating upon Hari's form as Nārāyaṇa, / cast off their own bodies at that sacred ford,

go to the spotless abode that is difficult even for the gods to attain: / Viṣṇu's highest step, free from both the perishable and the imperishable.

Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-second chapter, entitled "Description of the Greatness of the Ādivārāha Sacred Ford", in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth [section], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.