Then saluting all the Siddhas and being adored by them in return like a king or a god, that foremost of the pious, accompanied by all the leading twice-born, entered (the forest).
स तत्र सिद्धानभिवाद्य सर्वान् प्रत्यर्चितो राजवद् देववच्च। विवेश सर्वैः सहितो द्विजावयैः कृताञ्जलिर्धर्मभृतां वरिष्ठः॥