Skandapurana 6.3.138

Chapter 138

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Then, O son of Pāṇḍu, one should go to the supreme Śakratīrtha, / where the illustrious king of gods, Śatakratu, attained perfection. (1)

Learning that the lord of the gods had formerly been cursed by Gautama, the gods, / all the deities beginning with Brahmā, and the seers rich in austerity, (2)

entreated Gautama with concilatory and auspicious words / on behalf of Śakra, who had lost his kingdom and lost his fortune, O lord of sages: (3)

'Without Indra, no one desires the kingdom, O twice-born, / whether god or human; this is known to you, O lord. (4)

Take pity on him who is covered with vulvas, O best of the twice-born! / Śakra has vanished from sight, ruined by his own sin.' (5)

Hearing the words of the gods, Gautama, foremost among knowers of the Veda, / consented, saying, 'So be it,' and proceeded to grant a boon to Śakra. (6)

"O Śatakratu, this thousand of vulvas was formerly produced [upon you]. / By my grace, it shall become a thousand eyes."

Having been spoken to thus, the thousand-eyed one bowed to the excellent sage / and to those illustrious brahmins, and then went to the Narmadā.

Having bathed in its clear water and installed the Destroyer of Tripura, / he went to the abode of the thirty [gods], worshipped by hosts of apsarases.

Whoever bathes in that sacred ford and worships the Supreme Lord / is freed from the sin of approaching another's wife.

Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-eighth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Śakratīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth, Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.