This is the fruit of ascetic rites. Thence is this great calamity! Go, O king and propitiate that Rishi who is living on the bank of the Sarasvati.'
तस्यैतत् तपसः कर्म येन तेऽद्य लयो महान्॥ अपां कुर्छ सरस्वत्यास्तं प्रसादय पार्थिव।