Gifted with great strength and great ascetic power, the child proceeded before that lord of the gods, viz., Mahadeva, armed with trident and Pinaka.
स तु बालोऽपि बलवान महायोगबलान्वितः॥ अभ्याजगाम देवेशं शूलहस्तं पिनाकिनम्।