Bathing in all those tirthas and observing fasts and other vows as sanctioned by the Rishis and given away immense riches and saluting all the ascetics who lived there, Baladeva once more set out, along the way pointed out to him by those ascetics for reaching that spot where the Sarasvati turns in an eastward direction like torrents of rain bent by the velocity of the storm. The river took that course for seeing the great Rishis dwelling in the forest of Naimisha.
आप्लुत्य तत्र तीर्थेषु यथोक्तं तत्र चर्षिभिः। कृत्वोपवासनियमं दत्त्वा दानानि सर्वशः॥ अभिवाद्य मुनीस्तान् वै तत्र तीर्थनिवासिनः। उद्दिष्टमार्गः प्रययौ यत्र भूयः सरस्वती॥ प्राङमुखं वै निववतै वृष्टिर्वातहता यथा। ऋषीणां नैमिषयाणामवेक्षार्थं महात्मनाम्॥