Inviting many ascetics crowned with success and making them take their seats before me, I began the preliminary rites consisting of gifts of water and of other things.
ततोऽग्रतस्ततः सिद्धानुपवेश्य बहूनृषीन्। तोयप्रदानात् प्रभृति कार्याण्यहमथारभम्॥