It was thus, O foremost of monarchs that king Vitahavya, though a Kshatriya by the order of his birth, acquired the dignity of a Brahmana, O chief of Kshatriyas, through the grace of Bhrigu.
एवं विप्रत्वमगमद् वीतहव्यो नराधिपः। भृगोः प्रसादाद् राजेन्द्र क्षत्रियः क्षत्रियर्षभ॥