When the Asura Namuchi, who knew well the birth and the death of all creatures was sitting, shorn of prosperity but undisturbed at heart like the huge ocean in perfect stillness, Purandara addressed him these words-..
श्रिया विहीनमासीनमक्षोभ्यमिव सागरम्। भवाभवज्ञं भूतानामित्युवाच पुरंदरः॥