Thereupon saying, So be it! and having paid homage to those ascetics, Viśvāmitra set about crossing that river, which had replenished the ocean.
विश्वामित्रस्तथेत्युक्त्वा तानृषीन् प्रतिपूज्य च। ततार सहितस्ताभ्यां सरितं सागरङ्गमाम्॥