Saluting you and adoring you with bent head, I ask you this viz., what the power is of my penances and what the high blessedness is that is yours.
तपस्विनो धृतिमतः प्रमोदः समुपागतः। एतत् पृच्छामि ते विद्वन्नभिवाद्य प्रणम्य च॥