Skandapurana 3.1.52.1.4

3.1.52.1.4

nāgāḥ kiṃpuruṣā yakṣāḥ sarve tuṣyaṃti niścitam ..44..
svayaṃ ca pūto bhavati dhanuṣkoṭyavalo kanāt..
svavaṃśajānnarānsarvānpāvayecca pitāmahān .. 45 ..
tārayecca kulaṃ sarvaṃ dhanuṣkoṭyavalokanāt ..
rāmasya dhanuṣaḥ koṭyā kṛtarevāvagāhanāt .. 46 ..
paṃcapātakakoṭīnāṃ nāśaḥ syāttatkṣaṇe dhruvam ..
śrīrāmadhanuṣaḥ koṭyā rekhāṃ yaḥ paśyate kṛtām .. 47 ..
anekakleśasaṃpūrṇaṃ garbhavāsaṃ na paśyati ..
yatra sītā'nalaṃ prāptā tasminkuṃḍe nimajjanāt .. 48 ..
bhrūṇahatyāśataṃ viprā naśyati kṣaṇamātrataḥ ..
yathā rāmastathā seturyathā gaṃgā tathā hariḥ .. 49 ..
gaṃge hare rāmaseto tviti saṃkīrtayannaraḥ ..
yatra kvāpi bahiḥ snāyāttena yāti parāṃ gatim .. 3.1.52.50 ..
setāvardhodaye snātvā gandhamādanaparvate ..
pitṝnuddiśya yaḥ piṃḍāndadyātsarṣapamātrakān .. 51 ..
pitarastṛptimāyāṃti yāvaccaṃdradivākarau ..
śamīpatrapramāṇaṃ tu pitṝnuddiśya bhaktitaḥ .. 52 ..
dvijena piṇḍaṃ dattaṃ cetsarvapāpavimocitaḥ ..
svargastho muktimāyāti narakastho divaṃ vrajet .. 53 ..
setau ca padmanābhe ca gokarṇe puruṣottame ..
udanvadaṃbhasi snānaṃ sārvakālikamīpsitam .. 54 ..
śukrāṃgārakasaurīṇāṃ vāreṣu lavaṇāṃbhasi ..
saṃtānakāmī na snāyā tsetoranyatra karhicit .. 55 ..
akṛtapretakāryo vā garbhiṇīpatireva vā ..
na snāyādudadhau vidvānsetoranyatra karhicit .. 56 ..
na kālāpekṣaṇaṃ setornityasnānaṃ praśasyate ..
vāratithyṛkṣaniyamāḥ setoranyatra hi dvijāḥ .. 57 ..
uddiśya jīvataḥ snāyānna tu snāyānmṛtānprati ..
kuśaiḥ pratikṛtiṃ kṛtvā snāpayettīrthavāribhiḥ .. 58 ..

the nāgas, kimpuruṣas, and yakṣas are all surely pleased. / And by beholding Dhanuṣkoṭi, one personally becomes purified; // one purifies all the men born in one's family and one's grandfathers, / and through the darśana of Dhanuṣkoṭi delivers one's entire lineage. // By immersing oneself in the furrow made by the tip of Rāma's bow, / the destruction of tens of millions of major sins surely occurs in that very instant. // Whoever sees the line made by the tip of glorious Rāma’s bow / does not behold dwelling in the womb full of countless afflictions. // By plunging into that pool where Sītā entered the fire, / O brahmins, a hundred murders of an embryo are destroyed in a mere instant. // Just as Rāma is, so is the Setu; just as the Gaṅgā is, so is Hari. / Proclaiming 'O Gaṅgā! O Hari! O Rāmasetu!', / wherever a person bathes outside, through that he reaches the supreme state. // Having bathed at the Setu during an Ardhodaya yoga on Mount Gandhamādana, / whoever presents balls of rice measuring merely a mustard seed dedicated to the ancestors, // his ancestors attain satisfaction for as long as the moon and sun endure. / If a ball of rice measuring the size of a leaf of the śamī tree is given with devotion / dedicated to the ancestors by a twice-born, he is released from all sin; / if [the ancestor] is in heaven, he attains liberation, and if in hell, he goes to heaven. // At the Setu, at Padmanābha, at Gokarna, and at Puruṣottama, / bathing in the water of the ocean is desired at all times. // On the days of Venus, Mars, and Saturn, one desirous of offspring / should never bathe in saltwater anywhere other than the Setu. // Or one who has not performed the funeral rites for a departed soul, or the husband of a pregnant woman— / a wise person should never bathe in the ocean anywhere other than the Setu. // There is no awaiting a proper time for the Setu; constant bathing is praised. / The rules concerning the day of the week, the lunar day, and the lunar mansion apply only outside the Setu, O twice-born. // One should bathe dedicated to the living, but not dedicated to the deceased; / having made an effigy of kuśa grass, one should bathe it with water from the sacred ford.