In the intervals of martial exercises, he always discoursed with persons of character, or wise men, or the aged, or the virtuous.
शीलवृद्धैर्ज्ञानवृद्धैर्वयोवृद्धैश्च सज्जनैः। कथयन्नास्त वै नित्यमस्त्रयोग्यान्तरेष्वपि ॥