Shanti Parva 258.17
Rahular Itihasa / M. N. Dutt · Shanti Parva Chapter 258 · Verse 17
Sanskrit Original
तां तथा कुर्वतीं तत्र तपः परमदुश्चरम्। पुनरेव महातेजा ब्रह्मा वचनमब्रवीत्॥ कुरुष्व मे वचो मृत्यो तदनादृत्य सत्वरा। तथैवैकपदे तात पुनरन्यानि सप्त सा॥ तस्थौ पद्मानि षट् चैव पञ्च द्वे चैव मानद। भूयः पद्मायुतं तात मृगैः सह चचार सा॥
After she had practised such highly severe austerities in that place, the highly energetic Brahma once more said to her,-Do you satisfy iny command, O Death! Disregarding this order, the lady once more practised austerities standing upon one foot for twenty billions of years, O giver of honours! And once more, O son, she lived in the forest with the deer for another long period of ten thousand billions of years.