Skandapurana 6.3.68

Chapter 68

Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Then one should go, O Yudhiṣṭhira, to the sacred ford of Dhanada,
on the south bank of the Narmadā, which destroys all sins.

The fruit of all sacred fords is obtained there, of this there is no doubt.
On the thirteenth day of the bright fortnight in the month of Caitra, with senses restrained,

having fasted with supreme devotion, one should keep vigil at night.
O best of kings, the wise man should bathe Dhanada with the five nectars.

A lamp with ghee should be offered, and singing and instrumental music performed.
At dawn, one who desires welfare for oneself should worship brahmins,

who are worthy of receiving gifts, who proclaim knowledge and established truths,
who are devoted to Vedic and traditional rituals, and who turn away from others' wives.

He should worship them with cattle, gold, garments, shoes, and meals;
by the gift of an umbrella and a bed, the destruction of all sins takes place,

even the sin produced in three births, through the power of the granter of boons.
It gives heaven to the undisciplined, and liberation to the disciplined.

It becomes a giver of food to the poor birth after birth;
noble birth and the destruction of misery naturally arise for a man.

Destruction of disease occurs for them from serving the water of the Narmadā.
And whoever offers the gift of knowledge at the sacred ford of Dhanada,

he goes to the world of the sun, which is free of all disease.
And whoever, according to one's means, [organizes] a deity's procession right there, O son of Pāṇḍu,

and those who perform it abundantly on the south bank of the Revā,
they go to the world of Śaṅkara, which is free of all sorrow.

Thus ends the sixty-eighth chapter, entitled "The Description of the Greatness of Dhanadatīrtha," in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].