I see (before me) the foremost of streams, whose waters are honoured (by all) and which is sacred to celestials and men and Gandharvas and beasts and serpents and fowls.
प्रेक्षामि सरितां श्रेष्ठां सम्मान्यसलिलां शिवाम्। देवमानवगन्धर्वमृगपन्नगपक्षिणाम् ॥