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Rh The traveller was amazed and asked the Shankchoorni if she had heard from her friend the cause which had led to the frustration of their hopes. She replied, "The man himself felt certain of becoming a ghost, if nothing intervened to alter his fate, for an accidental death implies damnation. There was one circumstance, however, in the case which turned the scale in the young man's favour; and that was that the bull which gored him had a little mud of the Ganges sticking to his horns, and the touch of this mud opened the young man's way to Kailash."

The traveller left the scene in great wonder, and devoted his life to the worship of the Ganges. He organized a band of his village-men to sing the praises of the river everywhere in lower Bengal, and Ganga Sagar became the revered spot of their annual pilgrimage.