Observing many vows and restraints his food restricted by fast, his body clad in rags and skins, bearing matted locks on his head, his entire body smeared with filth and clay, the intelligent Brahmana passed many years there, speechless.
नियतो नियताहारथीराजिनजटाधरः। मलपङ्कधरो धीमान् बहून् वर्षगणान् मुनिः॥