Then that illustrious Rishi began to think how to perpetuate his race. He did not find a fit wife in whom he can take his birth as his son.
ततः प्रसवसंतानं चिन्तयन् भगवानृषिः। आत्मनः प्रसवस्यार्थे नापश्यत् सदृशी स्त्रियम्॥