[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v5.c74.136 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.136 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.136 - **Language:** English ### [v5.c74.136](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.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. - [Previous: v5.c74.135](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74.135) - [Next: v5.c74.137](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74.137) - [Up: v5.c74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74) ## Cites (1) - [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.1.60.35) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74.136](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c74.136) · Pramāṇa