Having seen this, the best of men, Shantanu began to reflect, "Why, does not the best of rivers run as before?"
तां दृष्ट्वा चिन्तयामास शान्तनुः पुरुषर्षभः। स्यन्दते किं त्वियं नाद्य सरिच्छ्रेष्ठा यथा पुरा॥