Oh ! my beloved, rishis with matted locks and wearing deer skins and bark of trees as upper cloth bathe in the river Mandakini for performing morning ablutions in time. [2-95-6]
Oh ! large eyed Sita, some other ascetics of rigid austerities worship the Sun god according to tradition, lifting up their arms and invoking the Sun. [2-95-7]
Behold this river Mandakini whose waters here are transparent like crystals, there sparkling with sand dunes and elsewhere crowded with siddhas (those accomplished in spiritual pursuits). [2-95-9]