The host of ascetics answered-"O son, you are too young.' Thereupon he answered the ascetics-"I must act in such a way that my religious merit may not suffer decrease'.
तत्राब्रुवन् मुनिगणा बालस्त्वमसि पुत्रक॥ स तानाह न मे धर्मो नश्येदिति पुनर्मुनीन्।