Agastya drank up the unfathomable ocean by his Brahma might. Therefore say, “Let this youth bend the bow and string it with ease.” The best of the Brahmanas said, “Be it so." The Brahmanas continued to talk thus to one another and on various matters.
पीतः समुद्रोऽगस्त्येन ह्यगाधो ब्रह्मतेजसा। तस्माद् ब्रुवन्तु सर्वेऽत्र बटुरेष धनुर्महान्॥ आरोपयतु शीघ्रं वै तथेत्यूचुर्द्विजर्षभाः। एवं तेषां विलपतां विप्राणां विविधा गिरः॥