Markandeyapurana 27.1

27.1

jaḍa uvāca
evamullāpyamānastu sa tu mātrā dine dine /
vavṛdhe vayasā bālo buddhyā cālarkasaṃjñitaḥ //

Jaḍa spoke:
Now being talked to in this way by his mother every day, the child Alarka grew in age and intelligence. Then this son of Ṛtadhvaja, on reaching boyhood, received investiture with the sacred thread, and being intelligent did obeisance to his mother and said, “What I ought to do now for happiness in this world and the next world, tell all that to me who am bowing respectfully before thee?”