Resembling the thousand-eyed Indra on Earth, Kushika, practised the austerest of penances from desire of getting the lord of the three worlds for a son.
अग्र्यं तपः समातिष्ठत् सहस्राक्षसमो भुवि। पुत्रं लभेयमजितं त्रिलोकेश्वरमित्युत॥