Having committed one hundred sins he who bathes in the Ganges has all his sins burnt off by the waters of the Ganges) as fuel is consumed by fire. It has been said that in the Satya Yuga all the Tirthas were sacred. In the Treta Pushkara alone was sacred. In the Dvapara Kurukshetra was sacred. In the Kaliyuga the Ganges alone is sacred. In Pushkara, one should practices asceticism, in Mahalaya one should give away (in charity); in the Malaya (mountains) one should ascend the funeral pyre, in Bhrigutunga, one should give up his body by fasting.
यद्यकार्यशतं कृत्वा कृतं गङ्गाभिषेचनम्। सर्वं तत् तस्य गङ्गाम्भो दहत्यग्निरिवेन्धनम्॥ सर्वं कृतयुगे पुण्यं त्रेतायां पुष्करं स्मृतम्। द्वापरेऽपि कुरुक्षेत्रं गङ्गा कलियुगे स्मृता॥ पुष्करे तु तपस्तप्येद् दानं दद्यान्महालये। मलये त्वग्निमारोहेद् भृगुतुङ्गे त्वनाशनम्॥