Thus asked by his great father. Nachiketa who had seen every thing with his own eyes, answered thus in the midst of the Rishis.
प्रत्यक्षदर्शी सर्वस्य पित्रा पृष्टो महात्मना। स तां वार्ता पितुर्मध्ये महर्षीणां न्यवेदयत्॥