What merits are acquired by a person regarding the next world, by bathing in the sacred waters on the Earth, O you of great wisdom? Do you explain to me this truly and according to the ordinance.
उपस्पृश्य फलं किं स्योत्तेषु तीर्थेषु वै मुने। प्रेत्यभावे महाप्राज्ञ तद् यथास्ति तथा वद॥