The great and the highly effulgent Mahadeva, accompanied by the Goddess, and moved by affection, came there and soon after the birth of the Muni's son invested him with the sacred thread.
तं महात्मा स्वयं प्रीत्या देव्या सह महाद्युतिः॥ जातमात्रं मुनेः पुत्र विधिनोपानयत् तदा।