Likhita answered: O you of great splendour, why did you not purify me at first, when, O best of Rishis, such was the power of your penances?
लिखित उवाच किं तु नाहं त्वया पूतः पूर्वमेव महाद्युते। यस्य ते तपसो वीर्यमीदृशं द्विजसत्तम॥