Skandapurana 6.3.189

Chapter 189. / Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O best of kings, one should go to the exceedingly splendid tīrtha / where the Boar, the upholder of the earth, arose.

Bearing this earth on his terrifying, curved tusk-tip, / he is declared to be the fifth Boar, the bestower of liberation.

Yudhiṣṭhira said: / How did the Boar, the upholder of the earth, come to have an elevated form? / Why did he assume the state of a boar, and why is he called the fifth?

Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Formerly, in the primeval kalpa, O king, the blessed Lord Hari / was sleeping in the Ocean of Milk upon the serpent-bed, captivated by yogic sleep.

She went into the presence of the god, O best of kings, / and said, 'Afflicted by burden, I will go down to the netherworld.'

Seeing [this], the agitated gods went where Janārdana was / and praised Keśava, the lord of the universe, with pleasing words.

The gods said: / 'Salutations, salutations to you, O lord of gods, O remover of the distress of the gods, O omnipresent one! / Salutations to you, whose form is the universe! Protect all from great danger!'

Thus addressed by the deities, the god said: 'What has occurred? / Tell me what task must be done, O gods; do not delay.'

The gods said: / 'The earth, the supporter of beings, is sinking down, troubled by her burden. / Lift her up, O Hṛṣīkeśa! Establish the worlds in stability!'

Thus spoken to by all the gods, the all-pervading Keśava, the supreme lord, / assumed the form of a boar, consisting of all sacrifices,

with terrifying tusks, tawny eyes, and curled bristles, / making Ananta his footstool and lifting up the earth with the tip of his tusk.

Having lifted up the earth with its mountains and forests, whose girdle is the ocean, / the blessed Lord Viṣṇu became elevated (Udīrṇa).

Displaying himself in five ways on the northern bank of the Narmadā: / thus, the first at Koralā, but the second at Yodhanīpura;

in the place called Jayakṣetra, he is proclaimed as Jaya; / the third is proclaimed as Liṅga, bewildering the asuras;

because he stood shining like the moon for the purification of the world, / therefore, O tiger among kings, he is called Śveta;

having lifted up the goddess of the worlds, he arose at Bhṛgukaccha; / therefore, the fifth is named the Varāha Udīrṇa.

Thus the five Boars have been told to you, O son of Pāṇḍu; / a simultaneous sight of them removes the sin of killing a brahmin.

Especially on the eleventh day in the bright half of the month of Jyeṣṭha, / having gone to the First Boar when the tenth day has arrived,

one should eat sacrificial food lightly at evening when the sun has set; / one should keep vigil at night at [the shrine of] the one named the First Boar.

Then at dawn at sunrise, having bathed in the waters of the Narmadā / and having gratified the ancestors and gods with sesamum mixed with barley,

one should give a cow adorned with all ornaments to a suitable twice-born. / Free from possessiveness and egotism, one should give a gift to the twice-born.

Going [there], one should worship the god called the First Boar. / Having worshipped according to this rite, one should then hasten to Jaya.

Having quickly gone to Jaya, one should perform the previous rite; / one should give a horse that has set forth from the east to an excellent twice-born at Jaya.

Sesamum should be given at Liṅga, and gold at Śveta; / at Udīrṇa one should give land, and perform the previous rite.

Listen with single-minded focus to the fruit one obtains here, O son of Pṛthā, / when one beholds the five Boars before the sun has set:

The killing of a brahmin, drinking liquor, theft, violation of the guru's bed, / association with these [sinners], and deception of those who trust;

carnal approach to a sister, a daughter, [or] women of one's own family— / whatever sin there is from birth to death, O best of Bharatas,

of one purified by the five tīrthas, especially of a Vaiṣṇava, / it would all perish simultaneously, like a heap of cotton from fire.

From the remembrance of Nārāyaṇa, and especially from recitation and meditation, / sins, even if equal to mountain peaks, are completely destroyed.

Having beheld the five boars, established in great spiritual effort, / bathing in the waters of the Narmadā, and having performed a śrāddha according to rule,

he who beholds Loṭaṇeśvara before sunset / is freed from his body—thus spoke Śaṅkara.

He quickly attains liberation, the supreme sovereign state, difficult to reach. / Even if success is not achieved while the effort is being made,

they declare that one attains heaven, even though endowed with sin. / Wherever one may go, the pilgrimage of the Five Boars would be [fruitful].

A man should certainly dwell there on the eleventh day of the month of Jyeṣṭha. / [The boars] Ādi, Jaya, as well as Śveta, and indeed the Udīrṇa-liṅga—

having resorted to it, the boars are to be seen everywhere there. / On the eleventh lunar day of Jyeṣṭha, by Viṣṇu, the all-powerful Lord,

having assumed the form of a boar, the earth was lifted up, O lord. / Therefore, it is more sacred than the sacred, destroying the entire mass of sins.

Having beheld the five boars, and the boar in the form of Udīrṇa, / having worshipped according to the rite, he should then keep a night vigil.

Having lit five-wick lamps with clarified butter with devotion, / through hearing the Purāṇas, dances, songs, and auspicious instrumental music,

and passing the night with sacred Vedic recitations— / whatever merit a mortal obtains, listen to that, O descendant of Ajamīḍha:

The water of the Revā is the most sacred on earth, and likewise Hari is the lord of the worlds; / the eleventh day removes sins, O king, and is obtained by humans through great efforts.

Individually, these are capable of destroying hosts of sins such as the murder of a brahmin, O king. / All these having united at once—are they not capable of destroying them? Tell that, O king!

Thus this has been spoken to you, O son of Dharma, as was heard from Śaṅkara, the moon-crested god. / Having heard this with desire, one is freed from all sins; by reciting it, one indeed goes to the abode of the enemy of Vṛtra.

Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-ninth chapter, titled 'Description of the Glory of Udīrṇavarāhatīrtha', in the Glory of the Narmadā, in the Revākhaṇḍa, in the fifth Avantīkhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.