From his practice of asceticism, from the application of his energy to the supreme truth and from his asceticism know him to be Madhava. O Bharata; and from his having within himself the essence of everything and from the fact of his killing Madhu, he is called Madhusudana.
मौनाद् ध्यानाच्च योगाच्च विद्धि भारत माधवम्। सर्वतत्त्वमयत्वाच्च मधुहा मधुसूदनः॥