Why is it that purifier of the worlds lave three directions? And why is that foremost of streams, Gangā, famous as wending in three ways
त्रीन् पथो हेतुना केन प्लावयेल्लोकपावनी। कथं गङ्गा त्रिपथगा विश्रुता सरिदुत्तमा॥