In ascetic practices and power, he far! excells all the gods. I shall, therefore, seek refuge with Girisha armed with trident.'
स हि देवोऽत्यगाद् देवांस्तपसा विक्रमेण चा तस्माच्छरणमभ्येमि गिरिशं शूलपाणिनम्॥