Meanwhile the powerful son of Kritavirya, the king of the Haihayas, endued with great power, highly pious, and possessed of a on thousand arms through the favour of the great Rishi) Dattatreya, having conquered in battle, by the strength of his own arms, the entire Earth with her mountains and seven islands, became a very powerful sovereign and (at iast) gave away the Earth to the Brahmanas in a house-sacrifice.