O highlyblessed one, I am pleased with your penances, O beautiful one! Do you, O goddess, beg what boon you wish to have. I shall grant you whatever, you may ask! These were my words to her, O Purandara.
किमर्थं तप्यसे देवि तपो घोरमनिन्दिते। प्रीतस्तेऽहं महाभागे तपसानेन शोभने॥