Verse 39

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The lake his tears made· Verses 34–39

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He went while the sage watched, along the road of the perfected that every lord of the perfected praises, listening to the hymn raised by the wings of the king of feathered chariots, with the saman rising in it. Then, when the white one had set out, the revered seer Kardama stayed on at Bindusaras, waiting for that time. Manu mounted a chariot with fittings of gold, set his own daughter upon it, and with his wife went travelling over the earth. On the day the Bhagavan had appointed, good archer, he came to the hermitage of the sage whose vows are quiet. It was there that drops of tears had fallen from the eyes of the Bhagavan, when pity filled him, pity poured out upon the man who had come to him.

That is the lake called Bindusaras, flowed over by the Sarasvati, holy, its water kind and deathless, and companies of great seers come to it.