The Grandfather said Welcome are you, O you of mighty arms! By good luck I see you after such a long time before me. I hope, O son, that everything is right with your penances, and your Vedic studies and recitations. You always observe the austerest penances. hence I ask you about the progress and well-being of those penances of yours.
पितामह उवाच स्वागतं ते महाबाहो दिष्ट्या प्राप्तोऽसि मेऽन्तिकम्। कच्चित् ते कुशलं पुत्र स्वाध्यायतपसोः सदा॥ नित्यमुग्रतपास्त्वं हि ततः पृच्छामि ते पुनः॥