For a full thousand years this Madhava practised the austerest penances and at last succeeded in pleasing the illustrious and boongiving Shiva, that lord of the mobile and the immobile universe.
पूर्णं वर्षसहस्रं तु तप्तवानेष माधवः। प्रसाद्य वरदं देवं चराचरगुरुं शिवम्॥