Skandapurana 6.3.206

Chapter 206
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
From there, O lord of the earth, one should go to the exceedingly splendid sacred ford, / sacred and taking away all sins, celebrated as Daśakanyā, / created by Mahādeva, holy, and granting the fruit of all desires.

At that sacred ford, Mahādeva chose ten endowed maidens / from Brahmā and united them indeed in marriage.

From that time forward, that sacred ford has been celebrated as Daśakanyā; / it removes all sins, is holy, and its fruit is proclaimed imperishable.

The man who gives away a well-adorned maiden at that sacred ford, / having given her well-adorned according to his ability, obtains [great reward].

Purified in self through the merit arising from that gift, O ruler of men, / they dwell in the presence of Śiva for as many years as the number of hairs [on the body].

Then, after a great period of time, in this world, O lord of men, / having attained human birth which is difficult to attain, he becomes the master of tens of millions in wealth.

He who, having bathed with devotion at that sacred ford, presents gold / to a tranquil brahmin, enjoys supreme happiness.

Whatever [sin] committed in the past—verbal, mental, or born of action— / all that dissolves through the gift of gold, O Bhārata.

A man, having given gold even the measure of the tip of a hair, / dying at that sacred ford, goes to heaven; there is no doubt of this.

Mounted upon an excellent aerial chariot, worshipped by vidyādharas and siddhas, / he resides there until the destruction of all elements.

Thus ends the two hundred and sixth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Daśakanyā Tīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth [part], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.