Bowing to the great god (Shiva), they told him all about the action of Partha. (They said), “The greatly effulgent Partha is engaged in austere asceticism on the breast of the Himalayas. Heated with his asceticism the earth is sending forth smokes. O chief of gods, we do not know with what object he undergoes this asceticism.
तं प्रणम्य महादेवं शशंसुः पार्थकर्म तत्। एष पार्थो महातेजा हिमवत्पृष्ठमास्थितः॥ उग्रे तपसि दुष्पारे स्थितोधूमाययन् दिशः। तस्य देवेश न वयं विद्मः सर्वे चिकीर्षितम्॥