सप्तरात्रे on the seventh night, वायुना with air, कृताहाराः as food, अचलवासिनः without motion, सप्तभिः seven, वर्षशतैः hundred years, सकलेबराः with their bodies, दिवम् heaven, याताः attained.

'These seven sages used to live on air and that too once in seven nights. They lived for seven hundred years performing penance with motionlessness and attained heaven along with their bodies.