Hearing those heart-rending lamentations of hers, that foremost of persons touched water and withdrew the (force of the Brahmaweapon.
श्रुत्वा स तस्या विपुलं विलापं पुरुषर्षभः। उपस्पृश्य ततः कृष्णो ब्रह्मास्त्रं प्रत्यसंहरत्॥