O perpetuator of the Kuru race, there is another Tirtha, called Ardhakila. Darbhi created it in the days of yore from compassion for the Brahmans. By vows, by taking the sacred thread, by lasts. By rites and by Mantras, one certainly becomes a Brahman. ) foremost of inen, it has been seen by the ancients that by bathing there, men learned and are endued with the fruits of observing the VOWS.
अर्धकीलं च तत्रैव तीर्थं कुरुकुलोद्वह॥ विप्राणामनुकम्पार्थं दर्भिणा निर्मितं पुरा। व्रतोपनयनाभ्यां चाप्युपवासेन वाप्युत॥ क्रियामन्त्रैश्च संयुक्तो ब्राह्मणः स्यान्न संशयः। क्रियामन्त्रविहीनोऽपि तत्र स्नात्वा नरर्षभा चीर्णव्रतो भवेद् विद्वान् दृष्टमेतत् पुरातनैः॥