When you will ascend it today, I shall perform the ceremony to avert all evils from you, for, O descendant of Ajainida, this altar here, as soon as it is touched by a mortal, goes down into the sea.
अहं च ते स्वस्त्ययनं प्रयोक्ष्ये यथा त्वमेनामधिरोहसेऽद्या मेषा वेदी प्रविशत्याजमीढ॥