Having read all the Vedas together with all their mysteries and abstracts, as also all the histories and the science of polity, O powerful king, the great ascetic returned home, after giving his preceptor the tuition-fee. Adopting the vow of celibacy, he then bagan to practise the austerest penances, concentrating all his attention thereon.
सोऽधीत्य निखिलान् वेदान् सरहस्यान् ससंग्रहान्।।२४ इतिहासं च कात्स्र्येन राजशास्त्राणि वा विभो। गुरवे दक्षिणां दत्त्वा समावृत्तो महामुनिः।।२५। उग्रं तयः समारेभे ब्रह्मचारी समाहितः।