Like a celestial child, he began daily to grow up. When he grew six years old, he was so strong that he seized and bound tigers, boars, buffaloes and elephants to the trees that stood near the hermitage.
कुमारो देवगर्भाभः स तत्राशु व्यवर्धत। षड्वर्ष एव बालः स कण्वाश्रमपदं प्रति॥ सिंहव्याघ्रान् वराहांश्च महिषांश्च गजांस्तथा। बबन्ध वृक्षे बलवानाश्रमस्य समीपतः॥