Having said this to that foremost of ascetics, I smitten with grief, began to weep. Thereat, after, reflecting for a while, that reverend one said,
एवमुक्त्वा मुनिश्रेष्ठमरुतं भृशदुःखितः। अथ ध्यात्वा मुहूर्तं च भगवानिदमब्रवीत्॥