Making gifts of kine to persons of the twiceborn order, his soul became purified and he succeeded in gaining a knowledge of it. Going to that very asylum where he had lived in his former birth, he practised very severe penances.
दत्वा गाश्चैव विप्रेभ्यः पूतात्माऽभवदात्मवान्। तमेव चाश्रमं गत्वा चचार विपुलं तपः॥