Thereupon having arrived at the hermitage situate on the banks of Gomati Lakşmaņa spent the night there. Thereupon at dawn he rose up and asked the charioteer to get the chariot ready, saying, “Like to the powerful Mahādeva we shall hold the waters of the Bhāgirathi on our head.”
शिवमित्यब्रवीद्धृष्टो हृदयेन विशुष्यता। ततो वासमुपागम्य गोमतीतीर आश्रमे॥ प्रभाते पुनरुत्थाय सौमित्रिः सूतमब्रवीत्। योजयस्व रथं शीघ्रमद्य भागीरथीजलम्॥ शिरसा धारयिष्यामि त्रियम्बक इवौजसा।