And pure with holy lustre gleamed.

Then every spirit, sage, and bard,

Condemned to earth by sentence hard,

Pressed eagerly around the tide

That Śiva's touch had sanctified.

Then they whom heavenly doom had hurled,

Accursed, to this lower world,

Touched the pure wave, and freed from sin

Resought the skies and entered in.

And all the world was glad, whereon