That person who, himself seeing Ganga, points her out to others, finds that Ganga rescues him from rebirth and confers Liberation on him. Ganga held Guha, the commander-in-chief of the celestial army in her womb. She bears the most precious of all metals, viz., gold, also in that womb of hers. They who bathe in her waters every day in the morning, succeed in obtaining the three-fold objects, viz., Virtue and Wordly Profit and Pleasure. Those waters are, again, equal in point of sanctity to the butter that is poured with Mantras on the sacrificial fire. Capable of purging one from every sin, she has descended from the celestial region and her current is held in high regard by every one.
इयं गङ्गेति नियतं प्रतिष्ठा गुहस्य रुक्मस्य च गर्भयोषा। प्रातस्त्रिवर्गा घृतवहा विपाप्मा गङ्गावतीर्णा वियतो विश्वतोया॥