Skandapurana 3.1.52.1.2

3.1.52.1.2

avimukte daśābdaṃ tu gaṃgāsnānaphalaṃ labhet .. 15 ..
koṭijanmakṛtaṃ pāpaṃ tatkṣaṇenaiva naśyati ..
aśvamedhasahasrasya phalamāpnotya nuttamam ..16..
viṣuvāyanasaṃkrāṃtau śaśivāre ca parvaṇi ..
setudarśanamātreṇa saptajanmārjitāśubham ..17..
naśyate svargatiṃ caiva prayāṃti dvijapuṃgavāḥ ..
makarasthe ravau māghe kiṃcidabhyudite ravau .. 18 ..
snātvā dinatrayaṃ martyo dhanuṣkoṭau vipātakaḥ ..
gaṃgādisarvatīrtheṣu snānapuṇyamavāpnuyāt .. .. 19 ..
dhanuṣkauṭau naraḥ kuryātsnānaṃ paṃcadineṣu yaḥ ..
aśvamedhādipuṇyaṃ ca prāpnuyādbrāhmaṇottamāḥ .. 3.1.52.20 ..
cāṃdrāyaṇādikṛcchrāṇāmanuṣṭhānaphalaṃ labhet ..
caturṇāmapi vedānāṃ pārāyaṇaphalaṃ tathā .. 21 ..
māghamāse daśāhaḥsu dhanuṣkoṭau nimajjanāt ..
brahmahatyāyutaṃ naśyennātra kāryā vicāraṇā .. 22 ..
māghamāse dhanuṣkoṭau daśapaṃcadināni yaḥ ..
snānaṃ karoti manujaḥ sa vaikuṃṭhamavāpnuyāt .. 23 ..
māghamāse rāmasaitau snānaṃ viṃśaddi naṃ caran ..
śivasāmīpyamāpnoti śivena saha modate .. 24 ..
paṃcaviṃśaddinaṃ snānaṃ kurvansārūpyamāpnuyāt ..
snānaṃ triṃśaddinaṃ kurvansāyujyaṃ labhate dhruvam .. 25 ..
ato'vaśyaṃ rāmasetau māghamāse dvijottamāḥ ..
snānaṃ samācaredvidvānkiṃcidabhyudite ravau .. 26 ..
caṃdrasūryoparāge ca tathaivārddhodaye dvijāḥ ..
mahodaye rāmasetau snānaṃ kurvandvijottamāḥ .. 27 ..
anekakleśasaṃyuktaṃ garbhavāsaṃ na paśyati..
brahmahatyādipāpānāṃ nāśakaṃ ca prakīrtitam .. .. 28 ..
sarveṣāṃ narakāṇāṃ ca bādhakaṃ parikīrtitam ..
saṃpadāmapi sarvāsāṃ nidānaṃ parikīrtitam .. 29 ..

one obtains the fruit of ten years of ritual ablution in the Gaṅgā at Avimukta. / The sin committed in ten million births is destroyed in that very instant; // he obtains the unsurpassed fruit of a thousand horse-sacrifices. / At the equinoxes, the solstices, on a Monday, and on a parvan day, // by the mere darśana of the Setu the misfortune earned across seven births / is destroyed, and [such men] attain the heavenly realm, O best of brahmins. / When the sun enters Capricorn in the month of Māgha, just as the sun has slightly risen, // a mortal who bathes for three days at Dhanuṣkoṭi becomes free from sin, / and obtains the merit of bathing in all sacred fords beginning with the Gaṅgā. // A man who performs ritual ablution at Dhanuṣkoṭi for five days, / O best of brahmins, attains the merit of a horse-sacrifice and others; // he gains the fruit of the observance of the Cāndrāyaṇa and other penances, / and likewise the fruit of reciting the four Vedas from beginning to end. // By immersing oneself at Dhanuṣkoṭi on ten days in the month of Māgha, / ten thousand murders of a brahmin are destroyed; there should be no doubt about this. // The person who performs ritual ablution at Dhanuṣkoṭi for fifteen days / in the month of Māgha reaches Vaikuṇṭha. // Performing ritual ablution at Rāmasetu for twenty days in the month of Māgha, / one attains proximity to Śiva and rejoices together with Śiva. // Performing ritual ablution for twenty-five days, one attains similarity of form [with the deity]; / performing ritual ablution for thirty days, one surely attains absorption [into the divine]. // Therefore, O best of brahmins, in the month of Māgha a wise man / should certainly perform ritual ablution at Rāmasetu just as the sun has slightly risen. // During an eclipse of the moon or sun, and likewise at the Ardhodaya yoga, O twice-born, / or at the Mahodaya yoga, performing ritual ablution at Rāmasetu, O best of brahmins, // one does not experience dwelling in the womb fraught with numerous afflictions. / And it is proclaimed as destroying sins such as the murder of a brahmin; // it is proclaimed as warding off all hells, / and it is proclaimed as the source of all prosperities.