Here all the chief rivers in their embodied forms, taking their respective waters, stood round that foremost of Rishis.
यत्र सर्वाः सरिच्छेष्ठाः साक्षात् तमृषिसत्तमम्। स्वं स्वं तोयमुपादाय परिवार्योपतस्थिरे॥