As I am practising asceticism my services as Agni have been dispensed with.” He then considered how he could again become the deity of fire.
अग्नित्वं विप्रणष्टं हि तप्यमानस्य मे तपः। कथमग्निः पुनरहं भवेयमिति चिन्त्य सः॥