Forsooth countries and points of the compass which are without Ganga are like the sky without the sun or the Earth without mountains, or the etherial region without air.
यथा हीनं नभोऽर्केण भूःशैलैः खं च वायुना। तथा देशा दिशश्चैव गङ्गाहीना च संशयः॥