They would live for days together without partaking of any food, and dry up their limbs by such abstention. They devote themselves earnestly to the study of the Vedas, controlling their senses.
तिष्ठेयुरप्यभुञ्जाना बहूनि दिवसान्यपि। शोषयेयुश्च गात्राणि स्वाध्यायैः संयतेन्द्रियाः॥