Having penances for wealth, your sire set himself to the practice of severe austerities. He held pebbled of stone in his mouth and had air alone for his food, and abstained altogether from speech.
आतस्थे स तास्तीव्र पिता तव तपोधनः। वीटां मुखे समाधाय वायुभक्षोऽभवन्मुनिः॥