Sojourns to tirthas yields the merits of Sacrifices. They are competent to purify everybody of sin. Fraught-with great good, they are capable of leading in heaven. The subject is truly a great mystery. The very gods should bathe in tirthas. To them also they are sin-purifying.
इदं मेध्यमिदं पुण्यमिदं स्वय॑मनुत्तमम्। इदं रहस्यं वेदानामाप्लाव्यं पावनं तथा॥