Let not my rashness in the combat that I have fought with you from ignorance be considered by you as a fault. O Shankara, I ask your protection. Pardon me for all I have done.
न मे स्यादपराधोऽयं महादेवातिसाहसात्। कृतो मयायमज्ञानाद् विमर्दो यस्त्वया सह। शरणं प्रतिपन्नाय तत् क्षमस्वाद्य शंकर॥