Bhagiratha said I used to make gifts of hundred thousands of gold coins to the Brahmanas practising the vow of celibacy all the while. It is not by dint of the merit of those, gifts, O learned one, that I have acquired this region.
भगीरथ उवाच निष्काणां वै ह्यददं ब्राह्मणेभ्यः शतं सहस्राणि सदैव दानम्। ब्राह्यं व्रतं नित्यमास्थाय विद्वन् न त्वेवाहं तस्य फलादिहागाम्॥