Having for a thousand years thousand years practised austerities in this vast forest, he obtained a boon from the Great-father,-in virtue of which he had attained consummate mastery in his art, as well as absolute control over the materials required therein.
स तु वर्षसहस्राणि तपस्तप्त्वा महद्वने॥ पितामहाद् वरं लेभे सर्वमौशनसं धनम्।