Skandapurana 4.7.74.4

4.7.74.4

where the white and the black [rivers] flow, best of streams, difficult to reach even for the gods, / immersed in which even a sinful man attains the supreme Brahman. / 46
The sacred field of Prajāpati, hard to attain for all, / is obtained through masses of merit, not otherwise through heaps of wealth; / 47
where, having come, the holy river of heaven meets / the auspicious daughter of Kalinda, who subdues the Kali age and time. / 48
It is celebrated as Prayāga because it is superior (prakṛṣṭa) to all sacrifices (yāga); / those who perform sacrifices return again, but not those whose bodies are moistened at Prayāga; / 49
where Maheśvara himself is visibly present with trident and chisel, / instructing creatures immersed there on the path to liberation; / 50
where there is also the Imperishable Banyan Tree, whose roots reach the seven realms of Pātāla, / climbing which the son of Mṛkaṇḍu lived even at the cosmic dissolution; / 51
he is to be known as Hiraṇyagarbha in person, assuming the form of the banyan tree; / by feeding brahmins near it with devotion, one shares in imperishable merit; / 52
where the Lord of Lakṣmī in person, coming from Vaikuṇṭha, / in the form of Śrī Mādhava leads mortals to the supreme abode of Viṣṇu. / 53
The two excellent streams, the white and the black, are celebrated in the Vedas; / it is certain that those who plunge into them, having bathed, become immortal. / 54
From the realm of Śiva, from the realm of Brahmā, and from the excellent realm of Umā, / from the realm of Kumāra, from Vaikuṇṭha, and from Satyaloka on all sides, / 55
and from Tapoloka, Janaloka, Maharloka, all the dwellers of the celestial realm, / from Bhuvarloka, Bhūrloka, and the entire realm of the Nāgas, / 56
mountains headed by Himavat, trees such as the wishing trees, / all come to Prayāga to bathe at daybreak in the month of Māgha. / 57
Even the maidens of the quarters pray to the breezes of Prayāga: / ‘They too will purify us; what can we do, being lame?’ / 58
The dust of Prayāga and sacrifices such as the horse sacrifice / were weighed in the past by Brahmā: they were not equal to its dust. / 59
Sins that have reached into the marrow, even those accumulated over many lives, / are worn away and greatly shattered merely by hearing the name of Prayāga. / 60