Endowed with eyes like lotus petals he reduced his bodily strength, by the observance of austerities for six and sixty thousand years living all the while upon air only.
षष्टिं वर्षसहस्राणि तावन्त्येव शतानि च। अशोषयत् तदाऽऽत्मानं वायुभक्षोऽम्बुजेक्षणः॥