Amongst those Brahmanas, some had extracted the stalks of the louts and some the stalks of the Nymphoca stellata. Soon they found that the stalks extracted by Agastya had been taken away by somebody.
नन्ये मृणालान्यखनंतस्त्र विप्राः। अथापश्यन् पुष्करं ते ह्रियन्तं ह्रदादरस्त्येन समुद्धृतं तत्॥