Having been asked by the daughter of Bhargava, (Shukra) the reason of his delay, he said, “O sweet lady, burdened with sacrificial wood and Kusha grass, I was coming towards the hermitage and feeling tired, I sat under a banian tree. All the kine also were staying under the shade of that tree.
कस्माचिरायितोऽसीति पृष्टस्तामाह भार्गवीम्। समिधश्च कुशादीनि काष्ठभारं च भामिनि॥ गृहीत्वा श्रमभारातॊ वटवृक्षं समाश्रितः। गावश्च सहिताः सर्वा वृक्षच्छायामुपाश्रिताः॥