Shakra said One born as a Chandala cannot, by any means, acquire the dignity of a Brahmana. Do you, therefore, name some other boon so that all this labour of yours may not prove futile! Thus addressed by the king of the celestials, Matanga became filled with grief. He went to Gaya, and passed there a century of years, standing all the while on one foot.
शक्र उवाच चण्डालयोनौ जातेन नावाप्यं वै कथंचन। अन्यं कामं वृणीष्व त्वं मा वृथा तेऽस्त्वयं श्रमः॥ एवमुक्तो मतङ्गस्तु भृशं शोकपरायणः। अध्यतिष्ठद्गयां गत्वा सोऽङ्गुष्ठेन शतं समाः॥