O best of the gods, permit me now to observe the vow on my part that I may bestow my very life upon the begging wielder of the thunderbolt.
इदं त्वमनुजानीहि सुरश्रेष्ठ व्रतं मम। भिक्षते वलिाणे दद्यामपि जीवितमात्मनः॥