You have seen with your own eyes the great ascetic Markandeya of incomparable magnanimity come to us who has been rendered immortal by virtue.
प्रत्यक्षं हि त्वया दृष्ट ऋषिर्गच्छन् महातपाः। मार्कण्डेयोऽप्रमेयात्माधर्मेण चिरजीविता॥