They who wish to make their birth, life, and learning successful, should go to Ganga and please the departed manes and the celestials by offering them oblations of water.
य इच्छेत् सफलं जन्म जीवितं श्रुतमेव च। स पितृस्तर्पयेद् गङ्गामभिगम्य सुरांस्तथा॥