Gautama said: "I have read the Vedas together with all their branches and have laid up a great store of asceticism. I have led a life of celebacy, have gone through the Brahmacharya mode of life and have appeased the fire and my superiors.
गौतम उवाच वेदाः साङ्गा मयाधीतास्तपो मे संचितं महत्। कौमारब्रह्मचर्यं च गुरवोऽग्निश्च तोषिताः॥