नित्यसन्तुष्ट: always contended, स: Rsyasringa, पितु: father's, आश्रमात् from the hermitage, नातिचक्राम never stirred out, तपस्विना by the ascetics, तेन by him, जन्मप्रभृति from his birth, स्त्री वा neither a woman, पुमान्वा nor a man, नगरराष्ट्रजम् born in towns or cities, सर्वम् all, यत् अन्यत् other creatures, न दृष्टपूर्वम् did not see earlier.

He (Rsyasringa) was always content and never stirred out of his father's hermitage. Absorbed in penance he had never seen a woman or a man nor any of the creatures born in towns or cities right from his birth.