And she remained in the water of the Yamuna for one year, and another year, that lady remained fasting without food. Without food and emaciated, rough skined, and bronzed, with matted locks, and begrimed with the mud (of the river), that lady, whose wealth consisted in asceticism, remained fixed and motionless for six months, her only food being the air.
निराहारा कृशा सक्षा जटिला मलपङ्किनी। षण्मासान् वायुभक्षा च स्थाणुभूता तपोधना॥ यमुनाजलमाश्रित्य संवत्सरमथापरम्। उदवासं निराहारा पारयामास भाविनी॥