Pulastya said: O hero of excellent vows, learned in the precepts of virtue, O greatly exalted one, I am much pleased with your humility, self-control and truth.
पुलस्त्य उवाच अनेन तवधर्मज्ञ प्रश्रयेण दमेन च। सत्येन च महाभाग तुष्टोऽस्मि तव सुव्रत॥