The foremost of Rishis, Agastya, addressing them all, said, Who has taken away good stalks which I had extracted and deposited here? I suspect some one amongst you must have taken them. Let him who has taken them away return them to me. You should not thus misappropriate my stalks.
तानाह सर्वानृषिमुख्यानगस्त्यः केनादत्तं पुष्करं सुजातम्। युष्माशङ्के पुष्करं दीयतां मे न वै भवन्तो हर्तुमर्हन्ति पद्मम्॥