It is for this that the matted locks of the great Vyasa, thus enblazed by his energy on that occasion, seem to this day to be gifted with the hue of fire.
एता अद्यापि कृष्णस्य तपसा तेन दीपिताः। अग्निवर्णा जटास्तात प्रकाशन्ते महात्मनः॥