The Rishi said Those countries, those provinces, those retreats, and those mountains, should be considered as the foremost in sanctity through which or by the side of which that foremost of all rivers viz., Bhagirathi, flows.
ऋषिरुवाच ते देशास्ते जनपदास्तेऽऽश्रमास्ते च पर्वताः। येषां भागीरथी गङ्गा मध्येनैति सरिद्वरा॥