Rewards my care and filial love.

You, honoured parents, soon shall be

Partakers of that home with me.”

He spake, and swiftly mounting high,

With Indra near him, to the sky

On a bright car, with flame that glowed,

Sublime the duteous hermit rode.

The father, with his consort's aid,

The funeral rites with water paid,

And thus his speech to me renewed