When they began to live there, many venerable ascetics, learned in the Vedas, often came to see them. Those foremost of men always received those Veda-knowing Rishis with great respect.
तथा वने तान् वसतः प्रवीरान् स्वाध्यायवन्तश्च तपोधनाचा स्तान् पूजयामासुरथो नरायाः॥