Skandapurana 6.3.222

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, at a distance of one krośa, one should go to the excellent sacred ford Tilāda, / where Jābāli, eating sesame seeds, attained purification.

He had abandoned his parents, lusted after his brother's wife, / sold his own son, was a sinner, and had acted deceitfully toward his guru.

Overcome with such faults, wherever he went, / there he met with reproach among good people, O descendant of Bharata; / no one would even keep company with him in assemblies.

Thus covered with shame, the brahmin, before long, O king, / fell into great anxiety, knowing no way [to find] a purifying means.

He visited all sacred fords and plunged into the Revā.

Having reached the vicinity of Aṇivāpa on the southern bank of the Narmadā, / Jābāli, observing vows, stayed there, O son of Pṛthā, eating sesame seeds.

Taking a single meal of sesame seeds, or eating on alternate days, / eating once every three days, six days, or twelve days, or eating once a fortnight or once a month,

and performing penances like the Kṛcchra and Cāndrāyaṇa with sesame seeds alone, / he came to be known as 'Tilāda' (sesame-eater) continuously for seventy-two years.

As time passed, the Lord became pleased with him; / he granted him purification in this world and the next, and his own realm.

By him was installed that god named after himself, O bull of the Bharatas; / and the Lord received the name Tilādeśvara even from the people.

From then on, that sacred ford became renowned as destructive of sins. / Having bathed in that sacred ford on the fourteenth and eighth days [of the fortnight],

intent upon fasting, O son of Pṛthā, as well as on the day of Hari, / offering sesame into the fire, anointing himself with sesame, bathing with sesame, offering sesame water,

giving sesame and consuming sesame, one is freed from various sins. / If one fills the liṅga with sesame seeds and offers a lamp with sesame oil, / he attains the world of Rudra and purifies his family up to the seventh generation.

By the offering of rice-balls mixed with sesame in a śrāddha, O best of kings, / even ancestors who followed wrongful conduct attain the desired destination.

Those who dwell in heaven, through the śrāddhas and feeding of brahmins, / attain imperishable satisfaction and rejoice for eternal years.

The paternal line, the maternal line, and likewise the wife's family, O king— / having uplifted these three families, a man leads them indeed to heaven.

Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-second chapter, entitled 'Description of the Greatness of the Tilādeśvara Sacred Ford,' in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].