By seeing that sacred river, touching it, and bathing in its waters, one rescues his ancestors to the seventh degree, and his descendants to the seventh degeree, as also other ancestors and descendants.
सप्तावरान् सप्त परान् पितूंस्तेभ्यश्च ये परे। पुमांस्तारयते गङ्गां वीक्ष्य स्पृष्ट्वावगाह्य च॥