O best of the Bharata race, hearing my words, the deity of one thousand eyes, the god of day (Aditya) replied, "Observe with mind rapt in meditation the Brahma-vow extending for a period of one thousand years." There upon I commenced that great vow on the breast of the Himalayas.
स तन्मम वचः श्रुत्वा सहस्रांशुर्दिवाकरः। प्रोवाच भरतश्रेष्ठ व्रतं वर्षसहस्रिकम्॥ ब्रह्मव्रतमुपास्स्व त्वं प्रयतेनान्तरात्मना। ततोऽहं हिमवत्पृष्ठे समारब्धो महाव्रतम्॥