Skandapurana 3.1.52.1.5

3.1.52.1.5

imaṃ maṃtraṃ samuccārya prasanneṃdriyamānasaḥ ..
kuśo'si tvaṃ pavitro'si viṣṇunā vidhṛtaḥ purā .. 59 ..
tvayi snāte sa ca snāto yasyaitadgraṃdhivandhanam ..
sarvatra sāgaraḥ puṇyaḥ sadā parvaṇi parvaṇi .. 3.1.52.60 ..
setau sindhvabdhisaṃyoge gaṃgāsāgara saṃgame ..
nityasnānaṃ hi nirdiṣṭaṃ gokarṇe puruṣottame .. 61 ..
nāparvaṇi sarinnāthaṃ spṛśedanyatra karhicit ..
pitṝṇāṃ sarvadevānāṃ munīnāmapi śṛṇvatām .. 62 ..
pratijñāmakarodrāmaḥ sītālakṣmaṇasaṃyutaḥ ..
mayā hyatra kṛte setau snānaṃ kurvaṃti ye narāḥ .. 63 ..
matprasādena te sarve yāsyaṃti punarbhavam ..
naśyaṃti sarvapāpāni matsetoravalokanāt .. 64 ..
rāmanāthasya māhātmyaṃ matsetorapi vaibhavam ..
nāhaṃ varṇayituṃ śakto varṣakoṭiśatairapi .. 65 ..
iti rāmasya vacanaṃ śrutvā devamaharṣayaḥ ..
sādhusādhviti saṃtuṣṭāḥ praśaśaṃsuśca tadvacaḥ .. 66 ..
setumadhye caturvaktraḥ sarvadevasamanvitaḥ ..
adhyāste tasya rakṣārthamīśvarasyājñayā sadā .. 67 ..
rakṣārthaṃ rāmasetau hi setumādhavasaṃjñayā ..
mahāviṣṇuḥ samadhyāste nibaddho nigaḍena vai .. 68 ..
maharṣayaśca pitaro dharmaśāstrapravartakāḥ ..
devāśca sahagandharvāḥ sakinnaramahoragāḥ .. 69 ..
vidyādharāścāraṇāśca yakṣāḥ kiṃpuruṣāstathā ..
anyāni sarvabhūtāti vasaṃtyasminnaharniśam .. 3.1.52.70 ..
so'haṃ dṛṣṭaḥ śruto vāpi smṛtaḥ spṛṣṭo'vagāhitaḥ ..
sarvasmādduritā tpāti rāmaseturdvijottamāḥ .. 71 ..
setāvardhodaye snānamānaṃdaprāptikāraṇam ..
muktipradaṃ mahāpuṇyaṃ mahānarakanāśanam .. 72 ..
pauṣe māse viṣṇubhasthe dineśe bhānorvāre kiṃcidudyaddineśe ..

Reciting this mantra with joyful senses and mind:
‘You are the kuśa grass, you are pure, formerly held by Viṣṇu;
when you are bathed, he is bathed to whom this knot-binding belongs.’
The ocean is everywhere sacred, always on every full- and new-moon day.
At the bridge, at the confluence of the river and the sea, at Gaṅgāsāgara,
and at Gokarṇa and Puruṣottama, daily bathing is indeed prescribed.
One should never touch the lord of rivers on ordinary days elsewhere.
In the hearing of the ancestors, of all the gods, and of the sages,
Rāma, accompanied by Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa, made a solemn vow:
‘The men who bathe here at the bridge made by me,
they all, by my grace, shall not return to rebirth.
All sins are destroyed by merely looking upon my bridge.
The majesty of Rāmanātha and the grandeur of my bridge
I am unable to describe even in hundreds of millions of years.’
Having heard this speech of Rāma, the celestial seers and great seers,
delighted, praised those words, saying, ‘Excellent! Excellent!’
In the middle of the bridge, the Four-faced [Brahmā], accompanied by all the gods,
dwells constantly by command of Īśvara for its protection.
For the protection of Rāma's bridge, indeed, under the name of Setumādhava,
Mahāviṣṇu resides there bound by a chain.
And the great seers, the ancestors, the promoters of the dharmaśāstras,
the gods together with gandharvas, kinnaras, and great serpents,
vidyādharas, cāraṇas, yakṣas, and kimpuruṣas,
and all other beings dwell upon it day and night.
That very Rāma's bridge, O best of brahmins, seen, heard of, remembered, touched, or bathed at,
protects one from all sin.
Ablution at the bridge during Ardhodaya is the cause of attaining bliss,
giving liberation, exceedingly meritorious, and destroying the great hell.
In the month of Pauṣa, when the lord of the day is in the asterism of Viṣṇu, on the day of the Sun, as the sun is just rising,