In days of yore, eternal Ocean that lord of Rivers, that refuge of the enemies of the gods, asked all the Rivers for solving this doubt that had arisen in his mind.
सुरारिनिलयः शश्वत्सागरः सरिताम्पतिः। पप्रच्छ सरितः सर्वाः संशयं जातमात्मनः॥