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.