History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.136

v5.c74.136

The Padmapurāṇa (sṛṣṭi 60 35) holds that Viṣṇu represents all the gods and the Ganges represents Viṣṇu. It eulogises the Ganges as follows: Sons abandon their fathers, wives their husbands, friends and relatives abandon a friend or a relative if any one of these is adulterous, or *patita*, or wicked or becomes a cāṇḍāla or kills his *guru*, or is full of all kinds of sins and hatreds, but the Ganges does not forsake such persons¹³³⁶.