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# Matsyapurana 107.4

Matsyapurāṇa 107.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [107.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.107.4)

akāmo vā sakāmo vā gaṅgāyāṃ yo 'bhipadyate  
mṛtastu labhate svargaṃ narakaṃ ca na paśyati //

> One who resides on the banks of the Ganges, with or without any object in view, and dies there, goes to heaven and remains far away out of the sight of hell.—4.  
> — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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## Translations (2)

- [The Matsya Puranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-taluqdar.107.p3) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.107.4) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74.127) — P. V. Kane, English

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