O king, seeing this the Rishi became filled with shame and fell at his feet. Believing that there was nothing better and greater than the Rudra, (he thus adored him).
तद् दृष्ट्वा वीडितो राजन् स मुनिः पादयोर्गतः। नान्यद् देवात् परं मेने रुद्रात् परतरं महत्॥