Reciting the Vedas with their branches, he is practising the severest austerities. Whatever libations of clarified butter or meat are poured on the sacrificial fire according to the ordinances of Brahman, by the Rishis, by Pashupati himself, by the rest of the principal gods, by the Daityas, the Danavas, and the Rakshasas, Nagas, Garuda bird, Gandharvas, Siddhas and foremost of the sages and whatever sacrificial oblation are offered, all reach the feet of that great god.
साङ्गानावर्तयन् वेदांस्तपस्तेपे सुदुश्चरम्। यद् ब्रह्मा ऋषयश्चैव स्वयं पशुपतिश्च यत्॥ शेषाश्च विबुधश्रेष्ठा दैत्यदानवराक्षसाः। नागाः सुपर्णा गन्धर्वाः सिद्धा राजर्षयश्च ये॥ हव्यं कव्यं च सततं विधियुक्तं प्रयुञ्जते। कृत्स्नं तु तस्य देवस्य चरणावुपतिष्ठति॥