I desire, therefore, to hear what is your motive about it. Indeed, why is it that canes, are not washed down by any of you from the banks were they grow?-Thus addressed, the River Ganga replied, to Ocean, that Lord of all Rivers, in these words of great significance, fraught with reason, and, therefore, liked of all.
तदहं श्रोतुमिच्छामि सर्वासामेव वो मतम्। यथा चेमानि कूलानि हित्वा नायाति वेतसः॥ तत्र प्राह नदी गङ्गा वाक्यमुत्तममर्थवत्। हेतुमद् ग्राहकं चैव सागरं सरिताम्पतिम्॥