यत्र भागीरथीं गङ्गां यमुनाभिप्रवर्तते।
जग्मुस्तं देशमुद्दिश्य विगाह्य सुमहद्वनम्॥
ते भूमिभागान्विविधान्देशांश्चापि मनोरमान्।
अदृष्टपूर्वान्पश्यन्तस्तत्र तत्र यशस्विनः॥
yatra bhāgīrathīṁ gaṅgāṁ yamunābhipravartate
jagmus taṁ deśam uddiśya vigāhya sumahad vanam
te bhūmi-bhāgān vividhān deśāṁś cāpi mano-ramān
adṛṣṭa-pūrvān paśyantas tatra tatra yaśasvinaḥ
yatra = where; bhāgīrathīm gaṅgām = Bhāgīrathī Gaṅgā; yamunā = Yamunā; abhipravartate = flows into; jagmuḥ = went; tam deśam uddiśya = toward the place; vigāhya = passing through; sumahat = a very large; vanam = forest; te = those; bhūmi-bhāgān = forest areas; vividhān = a variety of; deśān = and places within Vatsadeśa; ca api = and; manaḥ-ramān = charming; adṛṣṭa-pūrvān = that they had not seen before; paśyantaḥ = while observing; tatra tatra = on the way; yaśasvinaḥ = famous personsonalities.
Passing through a very large forest, those famous personalities went toward the place where Yamunā flows into Bhāgīrathī Gaṅgā while observing a variety of charming forest areas and places within Vatsadeśa that they had not seen before on the way.
Yaśasvinaḥ (“famous personalities”) indicates that they were worshipped by the residents of the places that they had passed through.