Hearing these words of Shankha, Likhita performed his ablutions in the sacred river and began to perform the water-rite.
तस्य तद् वचनं श्रुत्वा शङ्खस्य लिखितस्तदा। अवगाह्यापगां पुण्यामुदकार्थं प्रचक्रमे॥