ગોદાવરિ સ્તુતિ - સર્વમઙ્ગલમાઙ્ગાલ્યે બ્રાહ્મિ માહેશ્વરિ શુભે

Two verses to the Godavari, and between them they say everything the river is held to be. The first gives her the great goddesses' titles outright — auspicious among all auspicious things, Brahmi, Maheshvari, Vaishnavi, Tryambaka's own — and ends on the salutation the second repeats. The second is the one that carries the story. It calls her born from the matted hair of the three-eyed god, which is the claim the Ganga usually holds; the destroyer of Gautama's sin, which is the Godavari's own legend, the sage having brought her down to wash away the killing of a cow; and the one who goes to the sea in seven streams, which is the delta. So in a single verse she is given Shiva's hair for a source, a sage for a cause, and seven mouths for an end.