The preceptor, thus addressed, said, "As you have opened the water-course in getting from the ditch, you shall be henceforth known as Uddalaka as a mark of your action" and blessed him.
स एवमुक्त उपाध्यायः प्रत्युवाच 'यस्माद्भवान् केदारखण्डं विदार्योत्थितः, तस्मादुद्दालक एव नाम्ना भवान् भविष्यति इत्युपाध्यायेनानुगृहीतः॥