When the thousand years had been completed and the mighty ascetic had accomplished his vow, the celestials in a body desirous of conferring upon him the fruit thereof, appeared before him.
पूर्णे वर्षसहस्रे तु व्रतस्नातं महामुनिम्। अभ्यगच्छन् सुराः सर्वे तप:फलचिकीर्षवः॥