Bathing in the Shashthi lake one acquires merit much greater than what appertains to the gift of food. Ten thousand tirthas and thirty millions of other tirthas come to Prayaga, O chief of Bharata's race, in the month of Magha. He who bathes in Prayaga, with a controlled mind and observing rigid vows all the while the month of Magha, becomes purged of all his sins, O chief of Bharata's race, and attains to heaven.
षष्टिह्रद उपस्पृश्य चान्नदानाद् विशिष्यते। दशतीर्थसहस्राणि तिस्रः कोट्यस्तथा पराः॥ समागच्छन्ति माध्यां तु प्रयागे भरतर्षभ। माघमासं प्रयागे तु नियतः संशितव्रतः॥