Valakhilyas and Ashmarkuttas, Dantolukhalinas, Samprakshyanas and other ascetics, as also those living on air and those living on water and those living on dry leaves of trees and various others who practised diverse kinds of vows and those that lived on bare and hard earth, all came to that spot in the vicinity of the Sarasvati. And they rendered that foremost of rivers highly beautiful like the celestials beautifying with their presence the heavenly rivers called Mandakini.
वालखिल्या महाराज अश्मकुट्टाश्च तापसाः। दन्तोलूखलिनश्चान्ये प्रसंख्यानास्तथा परे॥ वायुभक्षा जलाहाराः पर्णभक्षाश्च तापसाः। नानानियमयुक्ताश्च तथा स्थण्डिलशायिनः॥ आसन् वै मुनयस्तत्र सरस्वत्याः समीपतः। शोभयन्तः सरिच्छेष्ठां गङ्गामिव दिवौकसः॥