 Dadhichi is said to have kept at the task for a very long time and, finally tiring of the job, is said to have dissolved the weapons in sacred water, which he then drank.The devas returned some time later and asked him to return their weapons so that they might defeat the asuras, headed by Vritra, once and for all.Dadhichi, however, told them of what he had done and informed them that their weapons were now a part of his bones.