Gifted with great wisdom, Medhatithi of Gautama's race. Practising penances, returned, convinced, after having meditated for that long time, of the impropriety of the punishment he had ordered to be inflicted upon his wife.
मेधातिथिर्महाप्राज्ञो गौतमस्तपसि स्थितः। विमृश्य तेन कालेन पन्याः संस्थाव्यतिक्रमम्॥