For a thousand years, he, having his senses controlled, practised rigid austerities in that mighty forest, observing (all the while) the most rigorous restrictions.
स तु वर्षसहस्राणि तपस्तप्त्वा महावने। यन्त्रितो नियमैरुप्रैश्चकार सुमहत्तपः॥