While I was coming here to the spot of his meditation every day and rendering service to him, He has disappeared without speaking a word to me. I know that he cannot be won over by mere beauty or charm but will yield only to devotion. I won't give up my devotion. I will please him with the hardest penance and draw him to myself. You have such a delicate body.
Penance is a hard thing.
Do stay at home and do your tapas. Mena thus tried to dissuade her. But she could not succeed. Just then the sage Narada came there. Parvataraja told him about his daughter.