If again the subject be injurious to your penances, I would not wish you to describe. If the question asked by me be a befitting subject of discourse, I would then wish to hear the cause fully. Devoted to penances as ye are, do ye all instruct me on the subject.'
भवत् तपोविघातो वा यदि स्याद् विरमे ततः। यदि वास्ति कथायोगो योऽयं प्रश्नो मयेरितः॥ एतत् कारणसामर्थ्यं श्रोतुमिच्छामि तत्त्वतः। भवन्तोऽपि तपोनित्या ब्रूयुरेतत् समन्विताः॥