Listen now to a great deed of Mankanaka, who had from his youth led the life of a Brahmacharin. While perforining his abolutions in the river, he saw one day, O Bharata, a damsel of beautiful features and fair brows, bathing in the river with her body uncovered. At this sight, O monarch, the seminal fluid of the Rishi dropped to the Sarasvati.
शृणु मङ्कणकस्यापि कौमारब्रह्मचारिणः॥ आपगामवगाढस्य राजन् प्रक्रीडितं महत्। दृष्ट्वा यदृच्छया यत्र स्त्रियमम्भसि भारत॥ जायन्तीं रुचिरापाङ्गी दिग्वाससमनिन्दिताम्। सरस्वत्यां महाराज चस्कन्दे वीर्यमम्भसि॥