O descendant of Kuru, the wise men say that six hundred millions and ten thousand Tirthas exist at Prayaga. Bathing in the confluence of the Ganges and the Yamuna, one obtains the merit of the four kinds of knowledge and the merits also of those that are truthful.
दश तीर्थसहस्राणि षष्टिः कोट्यस्तथापराः। येषां सांनिध्यमत्रैव कीर्तितं कुरुनन्दन॥ चतुर्विद्ये च यत् पुण्यं सत्यवादिषु चैव यत्। स्नात एव तदाप्नोति गङ्गायमुनसंगमे॥