Out of reverence, taking the food on his head and holding the same by his hands the devotee, of austere asceticism, stood there in the hermitage like a post and subsisting on air.
भक्तं प्रगृह्य मूर्धा वै बाहुभ्यां संशितव्रतः। स्थितः स्थाणुरिवाभ्याशे निष्चेष्टो मारुताशनः॥