O goddess, you are always given to the due performance of all duties. You have favored me highly by thus questioning me. O sinless one, you are honoured by the entire universe. yet you ask me that am but a River.
सस्मितं बहुबुद्ध्याढ्या गङ्गा वचनमब्रवीत्॥ गंगा वाच धन्यास्म्यनुगृहीतास्मि देवि धर्मपरायणे। या त्वं सर्वजगन्मान्या नदीं मानयसेऽनघे॥