Skandapurana 6.3.202

Chapter 202

Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Immediately after that there is another unsurpassed sacred ford, Śikhitīrtha, / the foremost of all sacred fords, an excellent fivefold shrine.

Having performed austerity in that sacred ford for the sake of a flame, the carrier of oblations, / obtaining a flame and becoming the crested [fire], installed Śiva named Śikhin.

On the first lunar day in the bright fortnight that occurs in Āśvayuja, O king, / going then to the excellent sacred ford and having bathed in the waters of the Narmadā,

he should gratify the gods, the seers, and the ancestors, as well as others, with water and sesame seeds. / He should give gold to a brahmin and satisfy the fire.

Then he should fully worship Śiva with fragrant scents, garlands, and incenses. / Having worshipped Maheśvara at Śikhitīrtha according to this rule,

in an aerial chariot possessing the color of the sun, surrounded by host of apsarases, / and being sung to by gandharvas, he goes to the world of Rudra.

He attains the destruction of enemies and is born radiant upon earth.

Thus ends the two hundred and second chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Śikhitīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth [part], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.