Engaged in the austerest of penances the Island-born Rishi begged of that great God, who cannot be approached by persons of impure souls, by his Yoga.
संकल्पेनाथ योगेन दुष्प्रापमकृतात्मभिः। वरयामास देवेशमास्थितस्तप उत्तमम्॥