Skandapurana 5.247

Vāṇī said: / The palāśa is indeed served in the form of Hari by those who know the past. / Indeed, the service of the brahma-tree with many offerings

is said to grant all desires and to destroy heinous sins. / There are three leaves on the palāśa; the middle one is assigned to Viṣṇu.

Brahmā is said to be on the left, and Hara alone on the right. / The best of men who constantly eats from a palāśa leaf-plate

undoubtedly attains the fruit of a thousand horse-sacrifices. / Especially during Cāturmāsya, it grants liberation to the eater.

If it is worshipped constantly on a Sunday with water or with milk / during Cāturmāsya, those [worshippers] go to the supreme abode.

If the palāśa is seen by men upon waking in the morning, / hells are swiftly shaken off, and the supreme abode is attained.

The palāśa is the support of all the gods and the instrument of dharma. / Where one has a desire for it, there the great tree is to be worshipped.

Just as among all varṇas the brahmin is the foremost, / so among all trees the brahma-tree is pre-eminent,

at whose root Hara constantly dwells, and the trident-bearer himself in the trunk; / the Blessed Lord Rudra is in the branches, the destroyer of Tripura in the flowers;

Śiva resides in the leaves, and Gaṇapati in the fruit; / the lord of Gaṅgā is in the bark, and the Blessed Lord Bhava in the marrow;

Īśvara is in the twigs; this entire [tree] is beloved of Hara. / Hara is always described as being white as camphor;

likewise indeed is this [tree], having the form of Brahman, white-colored and very auspicious. / Contemplated for the destruction of enemies and the drying up of sins,

it serves to grant desired wishes, there is no doubt here. / When Thursday arrives, and likewise during Cāturmāsya,

worshipped, praised, and meditated upon, it is the destroyer of all sorrows.

Praised by the gods, the seed of the gods, the supreme Brahman manifest that has attained the state of the brahma-tree— / this form of Sthāṇu should be constantly served with faith; served in Cāturmāsya, it destroys sins.

Thus ends the two hundred and forty-eighth chapter, entitled “Description of the Greatness of the Palāśa,” in the Paijavana narrative within the Māhātmya of Cāturmāsya, in the dialogue between Brahmā and Nārada within the narrative of the Sleeper on Śeṣa, in the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [section] of the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. // 248