There she practised a vow excellent and greatly severe. There she stood on one leg for sixteen times ten billions of years and five times ten billions also, through compassion for living creatures and through desire for doing them good, all the time withholding her senses from their dear objects.
सा तत्र परमं तीव्र चचार व्रतमुत्तमम्। सा तदा ह्येकपादेन तस्थौ पद्मानि षोडश॥ पञ्च चाब्दानि कारुण्यात् प्रजानां तु हितैषिणी। इन्द्रियाणीनिद्रयार्थेभ्यः प्रियेभ्यः संनिवर्त्य सा॥