Vaishampayana said: O Janmejaya, thereupon the Pandavas started from the Kaushika and went, one after the other, to all the sacred shrines. O King, going to the sea where the Ganges mingles with it, he performed the sacred ceremony of a plunge in the centre of the five hundred rivers.
वैशम्पायन उवाच ततः प्रयातः कौशिक्याः पाण्डवो जनमेजय। आनुपूर्येण सर्वाणि जगामायतनान्यथ॥ स सागरं समासाद्य गङ्गायाः संगमे नृप। नदीशतानां पञ्चानां मध्ये चक्रे समाप्लवम्॥