He was devoted to asceticism, had great repute, was learned in the Shruti, truthful, virtuous, well-regulated in his meals and was the most eminent amongst the learned in the Vedas.
तपस्वी च यशस्वी च श्रुतवान् ब्रह्मवित्तमः। धार्मिकः सत्यवादी च नियतो नियताशनः॥