Skandapurana 6.3.207

Chapter 207
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
In front of it is the purifying sacred ford celebrated as Svarṇabindu, / where, having bathed, those who die go to heaven and not to rebirth.

He who, having bathed at that sacred ford, gives gold to a brahmin— / hear, O lord of the earth, the fruit that has been proclaimed for him.

Of all jewels indeed, gold is the supreme jewel; / it arose from the brilliance of fire, and for that reason it is supreme on earth.

By him indeed the earth together with its mountains, woods, and forests, / together with its cities and towns, is completely given, who presents gold.

The mental and verbal sin, and whatever was committed by action in the past, / all that is quickly destroyed through the gift of gold, O Bhārata.

He who makes a gift of gold, even the measure of the tip of a hair, / dying at that sacred ford, goes to heaven; there is no doubt of this.

Mounted upon an excellent aerial chariot, worshipped by vidyādharas and siddhas, / he resides there until the destruction of all elements.

When his time is completed there, having attained an excellent human birth, / he is born as a twice-born in a household endowed with tens of millions of gold coins.

Freed from all diseases, worshipped in all worlds, / he lives for a full hundred years, regal, renowned among the virtuous.

Thus ends the two hundred and seventh chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Suvarṇabindu Tīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth [part], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.