Seeing this, O monarch, the Grandfather Brahman, addressing Bhagirama, said, How, O Bhagiratha, have you attained to this region that is so hard to get at.
तं तु दृष्ट्वा वचः प्राह ब्रह्मा राजन् भगीरथम्। कथं भगीरथागास्त्वमिमं लोकं दुरासदम्॥