When Gautama had laid himself down, the eloquent son of Kashyapa, who was like Yama himself in his knowledge of duties, asked him about the cause of his arrival there.
अथोपविष्टं शयने गौतमं धर्मराट् तदा। पप्रच्छ काश्यपो वाग्मी किमागमनकारणम्॥