Bathing in the Mahanadi and offering their oblations to the Pitris and the celestials, one obtains eternal region and also saves his race.
महानद्यामुपस्पृश्य तर्पयेत् पितृदेवताः। अक्षयान् प्राप्नुयाल्लोकान् कुलं चैव समुद्धरेत्॥