Erecting also a sacrificial platform and making a little room for his sleep, and some platforms for the use of the gods, he began, O chief of the Bharatas, to lead a life governed by rigid observances and vows and to practise penances, abstaining entirely from speech.
तत्र वेदी च भूमिं च देवतायतनानि च। निवेश्य भरतश्रेष्ठ नियमस्थोऽभवन्मुनिः॥