If one, fasting for three days with a purified body and mind, bathes in Mahapura, one becomes freed from the fear of all mobile and immobile animals as also of all two feeted animals.
महापुर उपस्पृश्य त्रिरात्रोपोषितः शुचिः। त्रसानां स्थावराणां च द्विपदानां भयं त्यजेत्॥