Capable of bearing hunger, thirst, and penances, and being emaciated with veins visible all over, I shall by various sorts of fasts, practise such vows as will take me to the other world.
क्षुत्पिपासातपसहः कृशो धमनिसंततः॥ उपवासैर्बहुविधैश्चरिष्ये पारलौकिकम्।