Having heard this from the magnanimous Maināka, I apprised the mountain of my mission, and my thought held their course. Having given me his permission, the magnanimous Maināka, the mountain that had put on the forın of a man, vanished, and, assuming his mountain-form, went into the vast sea.
एतच्छ्रुत्वा मया तस्य मैनाकस्य महात्मनः॥ कार्यमावेद्य च गिरेरुद्धतं वै मनो मम । तेन चाहमनुज्ञातो मैनाकेन महात्मना ॥ स चाप्यन्तर्हितः शैलो मानुषेण वपुष्मता। शरीरेण महाशैलः शैलेन च महोदधौ॥