sake of the Grandsire and for gratifying the Munis. (At another time), O king, many Munis, mustering together at Naimisha, took up their residence there.  Delightful disquisition occurred among them, O king, about the Vedas.  There where those Munis, conversant with diverse scriptures, took up their abode, there they thought of the Sarasvati.  Thus thought of, O monarch, by those Rishis performing a sacrifice, the highly blessed and sacred Sarasvati, for rendering assistance, O king, to those high-souled Munis assembled together, made her appearance at Naimisha and came to be called Kanchanakshi.  That foremost of rivers, worshipped by all, thus came there, O Bharata!  While (king) Gaya was engaged in the performance of a great sacrifice at Gaya, the foremost of rivers, Sarasvati, summoned at Gaya’s sacrifice (made her appearance there).  The Rishis of rigid vows that were there, named this form of hers at Gaya as Visala.  That river of swift current flows from the sides of the Himavat.  Auddalaka had also, O Bharata, performed a sacrifice.  A large concourse of Munis had been gathered there.  It was on that sacred region, the northern part of Kosala, O king, that the sacrifice of high-souled Auddalaka was performed.  Before Auddalaka began his sacrifice, he had thought of the Sarasvati.  That foremost of rivers came to that region for the sake of those Rishis.  Worshipped by all those Munis clad in barks and deer-skins she became known by the name of Manorama, as those Rishis mentally called her.  While, again, the high-souled Kuru was engaged in a sacrifice at Kurukshetra, that foremost of rivers, the highly blessed Sarasvati, made her appearance there.  Summoned, O monarch, by the high-souled Vasishtha (who assisted Kuru in his sacrifice), the Sarasvati, full of celestial water appeared at Kurukshetra under the name of Oghavati.  Daksha at one time performed a sacrifice at the source of Ganga.  The Sarasvati appeared there under the name of the fast-flowing Surenu.  Once again, while Brahman was engaged in a sacrifice on the sacred forest of the Himavat mountains, the adorable Sarasvati, summoned (by him), appeared there.  All these seven forms then came and joined together in that tirtha where Baladeva came.  And because the seven mingled together at that spot, therefore is that tirtha known on Earth by the name of Sapta Sarasvati.  Thus have I told thee of the seven Sarasvatis, according to their names.  I have also told thee of the sacred tirtha called Sapta Saraswat.  Listen now to a great feat of Mankanaka, who had from his youth led the life of a brahmacari.  While employed in performing his ablutions in the river, he beheld (one day), O Bharata, a woman of faultless limbs and fair brows, bathing in the river at will, her person uncovered.  At this sight, O monarch, the vital seed of the Rishi fell unto the Sarasvati.  The great ascetic took it up and placed it within his earthen pot.  Kept within that vessel, the fluid became divided into seven parts.  From those