Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 10


Sanskrit:

भगीरथ: स राजर्षिर्निन्ये भुवनपावनीम् ।यत्र स्वपितृणां देहा भस्मीभूता: स्म शेरते ॥ १० ॥

ITRANS:

bhagīrathaḥ sa rājarṣirninye bhuvana-pāvanīmyatra sva-pitṝṇāṁ dehābhasmībhūtāḥ sma śerate

Translation:

The great and saintly king Bhagīratha brought the Ganges, which can deliver all the fallen souls, to that place on earth where the bodies of his forefathers lay burnt to ashes.

Purport: