The king (Mahabhisha) then remembered all the monarchs and ascetics on earth and wished to be born as the son of the greatly powerful Pratipa. The best of the rivers, (Ganga) seeing the king Mahabhisha lose his firmness, went away thinking him in her mind. She saw on her way those dwellers of heaven, the Vasus, who were dejected and who had lost heaven.
वैशम्पायन उवाच स चिन्तयित्वा नृपतिर्नुपानन्यांस्तपोधनान्॥ प्रतीपं रोचयामास पितरं भूरितेजसम्। महाभिषं तु तं दृष्ट्वा नदी धैर्याच्च्युतं नृपम्॥ तमेव मनसा ध्यायन्त्युपावर्तत् सरिद्वरा। सा तु विध्वस्तवपुषः कश्मलाभिहतान् नृप।॥ ददर्श पथि गच्छन्ती वसून् देवान् दिवौकसः। तथारूपांश्च तान् दृष्ट्वा पप्रच्छ सरितां वरा॥