Practising the austerest of penances, he poured on his sacred fire libations of clarified butter, accompanying each with Mantras uttered by him.
स गत्वा हवनीयेऽग्नौ तीव्र नियममास्थितः। जुहाव संस्कृतैर्मन्त्रैरेकैकामाहुतिं नृपः॥