Seeing them about to set forth, that Maharși performed a propitiatory ceremony for them, even as a father does on behalf of the sons begot from his own loins.
तेषां स्वस्त्ययनं चैव महर्षिः स चकार ह। प्रस्थितान् प्रेक्ष्य तांश्चैव पिता पुत्रानिवौरसान् ॥