Vaishampayana said Arrived at the holy Ganga full of sacred water, containing many lakes, adorned with high banks and broad shores, and having a vest bed, they threw off their ornaments, upper garments, and belts and girdles. The Kuru ladies, crying and stricken with great sorrow offered oblations of water of their fathers and grandsons and brothers and kinsmen and sons and seniors and husbands. Conversant with duties, they also performed the water-rite for their friends.
वैशम्पायन उवाच ते समासाद्य गङ्गां तु शिवां पुण्यजलोचिताम्। ह्रदिनीं च प्रसन्नां च महारूपां महावनाम्॥ भूषणान्युत्तरीयाणि वेष्टनान्यवमुच्य च। ततः पितॄणां भ्रातॄणां पौत्राणां स्वजनस्य च॥ पुत्राणामार्यकाणां च पतीनां च कुरुस्त्रियः। उदकं चक्रिरे सर्वा रुदत्यो भृशदुःखिताः॥