And the seventh followed Bhagiratha's car. And that royal saint, the exceedingly puissant Bhagiratha, mounted on a superb car, went before; and Gariga followed him. And she descended from the welkin upon Sankara's head, thence alighting upon the earth.
सप्तमी चान्वगात् तासां भगीरथरथं तदा। भगीरथोऽपि राजर्षिदिव्यं स्यन्दनमास्थितः॥ प्रायादग्रे महातेजा गङ्गा तं चाप्यनुव्रजत्। गगनाच्छंकरशिरस्ततो धरणिमागता ॥