Skandapurana 15.42

Prahlāda said: / Those who perform the release of a bull in Dvārakā on the full moon of Vaiśākha and in Kārtika, / their ancestors are freed from ghosthood and depart [to heaven].

Even having committed such heavy sins / as murdering a brahmin, drinking liquor, theft, and union with the guru's wife,

by merely bathing in the Gomatī and seeing the glorious Kṛṣṇa, / O lord of Daityas, even those [sins] committed over ten million kalpas dissolve away.

Those men in the Kali age who, endowed with devotion, look upon Rukmiṇī, / circumambulate the city, and recite the Thousand Names,

have circumambulated the entire universe, no doubt about it. / The fruit that is proclaimed for great gifts elsewhere, / that arises then upon seeing Rukmiṇī in Dvārakā.

When the day of Dvādaśī has arrived, / hear, I shall speak of the fruit for one who reads the Dvārakā māhātmya in the presence of Viṣṇu.

Moving at will, he shines in all the worlds, / mounted on a lotus-colored vehicle adorned with a network of tinkling bells,

yoked with divine white horses, moving at will, comfortably as he pleases; / he sports with multitudes of apsarases until the dissolution of beings.

And he becomes fulfilled in purpose, accompanied by tens of millions of kalpas. / Just as fire is seen in all pieces of wood by churning, / so is dharma seen in a man through honoring the Dvādaśī.

Hereafter I shall proclaim what is declared by the ancestors: / 'May there be a man in our family who, with faith, / having bathed in the Gomatī and worshiped Kṛṣṇa, performs a śrāddha with rice balls!

May there be someone in our family who, having bathed at the confluence of the Gomatī and the ocean, / beholds Kṛṣṇa for our deliverance!

May there be someone in our family who, having heard this Dvārakāmāhātmya / from the mouth of a brahmin, will worship it with devotion!

May there be someone in our family who goes to the city of Dvārakā, / and having reached the pure Dvādaśī, keeps a night-vigil!

May there be a son or daughter in our family / who, praising, will recite the Thousand Names before Kṛṣṇa!

May there be someone in our family, firm in his vow, / who pleases the Vaiṣṇavas with the gift of white clay [gopīcandana]!

May there be someone in our family with subdued senses / who will recite the Dvārakā māhātmya in the presence of Vaiṣṇavas!

May there be someone in our family who, having written down the Dvārakā māhātmya / for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, keeps it in his home!'

The gift of gold, the gift of a cow, and likewise the gift of land / have been given for as long as he lives by the one who has kept this [māhātmya] in the Kali age.

The Taptakṛcchra, the Mahākṛcchra, and fasting for a whole month / have been performed for life by him who has caused this to be heard in the Kali age.

Expiations have been observed for the destruction of sins / by him by whom the Dvārakā māhātmya has been propagated in the Kali age.

Sins like killing a brahmin remain in a person only for that long: / until a creature writes down the Dvārakā māhātmya.

What need has he for all gifts, or for bathing in all sacred fords, / by whom this Dvārakā māhātmya has been written down in his home?

It pacifies all suffering, accomplishes all objectives, / constantly grants the four goals of life, and increases devotion to Hari.

No mental agony occurs, and indeed there is no fear of Yama for him, / wherever the Dvārakā māhātmya is recited.

The house in which it stays written down is indeed a sacred ford itself. / O Bala, listen to the māhātmya that has arisen from Dvārakā!

Keśava accepts worship even if lacking rules and ritual mantras [from one] / in whose dwelling the māhātmya constantly remains written down; / that man is not stained even by thousands of committed sins.

Whoever reads or hears the Dvārakā māhātmya, / no affliction from ghosts and no failure in dharma occurs [for him].

Rising at dawn, whoever remembers the Dvārakā māhātmya / obtains whatever fruit has been declared for all the Dvādaśī days.

He is constantly worshiped by the thirty [gods] and praised by Siddhas and Cāraṇas, / who recites the māhātmya that has arisen from Dvārakā.

Where Dvārakā resides, there is eternal Viṣṇu; / there are all sacred fords, all the gods along with Indra, / the sacrifices, the Vedas, the seers, and the three worlds moving and unmoving.

A mortal may not indeed be able to go to Dvārakā, my son; / the merit born of seeing Kṛṣṇa belongs to one reciting the māhātmya.

Truth, purity, sacred learning, wealth, good conduct, patience, and straightforwardness— / everything is fruitless for him who does not listen to the māhātmya.

Within six months a son is born and fortune increases / for him who listens to the Dvārakā māhātmya with devotion.

Thus ends the forty-second chapter, named 'Description of the Fruits of Performing Rites Such as Bull-Release and Listening to the Dvārakāmāhātmya in the Dvārakākṣetra', in the fourth [sub-section], the Dvārakāmāhātmya, in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.