Awaking at last, he looked at the trembling Menaka sorrow fully and said he would
not curse her, for it was his own folly, and not her fault, as in tempting him she was
only carrying out the orders of her master. And sadly he wended his way to the Himalayas
to resume his broken tapas.
There, for a thousand years,
controlling his senses, he performed rigorous tapas. At the request of the Devas,
Brahma appeared before Viswaamitra, and spoke to him thus sweetly: "welcome you as a
Maharishi, my son. Pleased with your soulful tapas confer on you that title and the
sanctity it imports." |
