तथा पितॄन् वैतरणी दुस्तरा पापकर्मभिः ॥
गङ्गा भवति गन्धर्व यथा द्वैपायनो ऽब्रवीत् ॥
असंबाधा देवनदी स्वर्गसंपादनी शुभा ॥
कथम् इच्छसि तां रोद्धुं नैष धर्मः सनातनः ॥
अनिवार्यम् असंबाधं तव वाचा कथं वयम् ॥
न स्पृशेम यथाकामं पुण्यं भागीरथीजलम् ॥
tathā pitṝn vaitaraṇī dustarā pāpakarmabhiḥ ||
gaṅgā bhavati gandharva yathā dvaipāyano 'bravīt ||
asaṃbādhā devanadī svargasaṃpādanī śubhā ||
katham icchasi tāṃ roddhuṃ naiṣa dharmaḥ sanātanaḥ ||
anivāryam asaṃbādhaṃ tava vācā kathaṃ vayam ||
na spṛśema yathākāmaṃ puṇyaṃ bhāgīrathījalam ||
"So too, descending to the ancestors, the Ganga becomes Vaitarani, impassable for the sinful, O gandharva, as Vyasa has said. This unobstructed, divine river, bestowing heaven, auspicious -- how do you wish to dam her? This is not the eternal law. And how shall we, by your word, not touch, as we wish, the holy, unpreventable, unobstructable water of Bhagirathi?"
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Here Arjuna raises the dispute to the level of dharma itself. It is telling that he calls the gandharva's prohibition contrary to the "eternal law" (sanatana-dharma): to bar access to a shrine open to all is lawlessness. Here is revealed the sanctity of the Ganga, who flows through the three worlds for the salvation of gods, men, and ancestors: no one has the right to close the way to such a river. Thus the text shows that the gandharva's claim is not only insolent but unrighteous; and Arjuna sets against his pride the unbreakable law of the openness of the holy.