Skandapurana 16.154

Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the sin-releasing liṅga / situated three bow-lengths to the northwest of Hiraṇyeśvara. // 1

It destroys the sins of all creatures by its sight and even by its touch, / the primordial liṅga established by Gāyatrī, O great goddess. // 2

Having approached that liṅga, whoever mutters the Gāyatrī, / having become pure, a brahmin is freed from [the sin of] improper acceptance [of gifts]. // 3

Whoever feeds a married couple on the full moon of Jyeṣṭha, / clothing them according to his capacity, that man is freed from misfortunes. // 4

And whoever worships on the full moon day with offerings of scents and flowers, / brahminhood is attained by him for seven births, O beautiful lady. // 5

Thus the sin-destroying glory has been told, O goddess, / through the grace of Brahmakuṇḍa, more essential than the essential, O beloved. // 6

Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-fourth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Gāyatrīśvara' in the Glory of Brahmakuṇḍa, in the Glory of Prabhāsa Sacred Field, the first [part] in the Prabhāsa Section, the seventh [book] in the Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, an eighty-one-thousand-verse collection. // 154