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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 19]
the transcendental River Yamunā which flows down by the capital of Hastināpura (in the Delhi state). Both the Ganges and the Yamunā are  amartya  (transcendental) rivers, and Yamunā is still more sanctified for the following reasons.
TEXT 6
या वै लसच्छ्रीतुलसीविमिश्र- 
    कृष्णाङ्घ्रिरेष्वम्यधिकाम्बुनेत्रौ । 
    पुनाति लोकानुभयत्र सेशान् 
    कस्तां न सेवेत मरिष्यमाणः ॥ ६ ॥
yā vai lasac-chrī-tulasī-vimiśra- 
    kṛṣṇānghri-reṇv-abhyadhikāmbu-netrī 
    punāti lokān ubhayatra seśān 
    kas tām na seveta mariṣyamāṇaḥ
yā —the river which;  vai —always;  lasat —floating with;  śrī-tulasī — tulasī  leaves;  vimiśra —mixed;  kṛṣṇa-anghri —lotus feet of the Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa;  reṇu —dust;  abhyadhika —auspicious;  ambu —water;  netrī —that which is carrying;  punāti —sanctifies;  lokān —planets;  ubhayatra —both the upper and lower or inside and outside;  sa-īśān —along with Lord Śiva;  kaḥ —who else;  tām —that river;  na —does not;  seveta —worship;  mariṣyamāṇaḥ —one who is to die at any moment.
TRANSLATION
The river [Ganges, by which the King sat to fast] carries the most auspicious water, which is mixed with the dust of the lotus feet of the Lord and tulasī leaves. Therefore that water sanctifies the three worlds inside and outside and even sanctifies Lord Śiva and other demigods. Consequently everyone who is destined to die must take shelter of this river.
PURPORT
Mahārāja Parīkṣit, just after receiving the news of his death within seven days, at once retired from family life and shifted himself to the sacred bank of the Yamunā River. Generally it is said that the King took shelter on the bank of the Ganges, but according to Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, the King took shelter on the bank of the Yamunā. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī's statement