दशवर्षसहस्रान्ते पुरुषस्तु सनातन: । तेषामाविरभूत्कृच्छ्रं शान्तेन शमयन् रुचा ॥ ४ ॥
dasa-varsa-sahasrante purusas tu sanatanah tesam avirabhut krcchram santena samayan ruca
- dasa-varsa
- ten years
- sahasra-ante
- at the end of a thousand
- purusah
- the Supreme Person
- tu
- then
- sanatanah
- eternal
- tesam
- of the Pracetas
- avirabhut
- appeared
- krcchram
- the severe austerity
- santena
- satisfying
- samayan
- mitigating
- ruca
- by His beauty.
At the end of ten thousand years of severe austerities performed by the Pracetas, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to reward their austerities, appeared before them in His very pleasing form. This appealed to the Pracetas and satisfied the labor of their austerities.