Having bathed in the celestial river Ganga, acred and purifying and ever worshipped by the Rishis, he renounced his human body.
गङ्गा देवनदी पुण्यां पावनीमृषिसंस्तुताम्। अवगाह्य ततो राजा तनुं तत्याज मानुषीम्॥