Skanda Purana 15.40

Śrī Prahlāda said: / One who worships the Lord of Śrī with leaves marked with his own name, / having attained the seven worlds, becomes the lord of the seven continents.

One who always worships Hari with the leaves of the mākānta tree / gains the merit in this Kali age of ten thousand horse sacrifices.

Having worshipped Lakṣmī, the goddess Sarasvatī, Sāvitrī, and Caṇḍikā / with leaves produced from the bilva tree, he goes to heaven.

A leaf produced from the bilva tree is declared superior to tulasī; / therefore, Acyuta should always be worshipped with effort.

Those who worship the bilva tree on a Dvādaśī that falls on a Sunday / are not tainted even by sins committed such as the killing of a brahmin.

Just as other footprints enter into an elephant's footprint, / so all merits are entered into Hari's day.

With an impermanent body that is destroyed at every moment, / why does a living being not observe the Dvādaśī accompanied by a vigil?

From chanting 'Kṛṣṇa', one delivers all people from hell— / seven ancestors and fourteen descendants. / Men residing anywhere do not truly live in this world [without it].

And when they reach Dvārakā, they are praised in the three worlds. / Men who provide food and lodging for ascetics in Dvārakā / obtain the reward of a hundred sacrifices at every mouthful.

Those who give loincloths, garments, and the like to ascetics, / and food according to their capacity to those living within Dvārakā— / hear, O son of Daitya, I shall declare the merit in brief.

The reward that one attains at Gayā by feeding crores of brahmins / learned in the Veda and loving to their ancestors, O leader of the Daityas,

such a reward is obtained, O grandson, when a single mendicant is fed. / Food should be given to a mendicant, even if one must sell oneself.

Fortunate are all those ascetics who dwell in the Kali age, / having taken refuge in Kṛṣṇa in Dvārakā day after day, O lord of Daityas.

Whatever living creatures die in Dvārakā in the presence of Kṛṣṇa, / even though sinners, piercing the orb of the sun, go to that abode.

The best among men who reside at the Cakratīrtha of Dvārakā— / for them, all the servants of Yama have been turned away by Yama.

Having bathed in the Gomatī, they behold Kṛṣṇa, who removes the impurities of the Kali age. / 'You have no authority over them, nor do they belong in our domain.'

Even a worm or an insect or trees that have taken refuge there, / they go to Kṛṣṇa's abode; they never again enter into saṃsāra.

How much more so the best of the twice-born, and especially the kṣatriyas, / and the śūdras dwelling there engaged in serving the three classes!

The twice-born who recite the Gītā before Kṛṣṇa throughout the entire month of Kārtika, / by eating once a day, eating at night, or eating unasked food,

by a three-night fast, a kṛcchra penance, and a cāndrāyaṇa penance, / by barley meals, the taptakṛcchra, and other penances, and by fasting for a fortnight or a month,

and those practicing vows who spend the month of Kārtika, / having bathed in the water of the Gomatī and also in the Rukmiṇī pool,

they become forms of Kṛṣṇa, with conch, discus, and mace in hand. / Having fasted on the pure Ekādaśī, free from contact with Daśamī,

they perform a śrāddha on Dvādaśī at the spotless Cakratīrtha, / and having fed brahmins with honey, milk-rice, and ghee,

having gratified them duly with devotion and given a dakṣiṇā according to their means, / [namely] cows, land, gold, garments, betel, and fruits,

shoes, an umbrella, flowers, and jars filled with water, / bright, accompanied by cooked food, with fruits, and accompanied by a dakṣiṇā—

one who performs this properly dedicated to Kṛṣṇa in Kārtika, / O Mārkaṇḍeya, an equal pleasure surely arises for his ancestors,

and imperishable satisfaction arises for Kṛṣṇa together with the gods.

Those most virtuous men who stay for a month in Kārtika engaged in vows and gifts, / their bodies purified at the Rathāṅgatīrtha, go to the auspicious and imperishable realm.

Thus ends the fortieth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Bathing, Giving, and Śrāddha at Cakratīrtha in Kārtika', in the Dvārakāmāhātmya, the fourth [sub-section] of the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, the seventh [section] of the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.