This it is that is corroding my limbs like fire burning a withered tree. Therefore, O you of eminent parts, O slayer of foes, through your grace, I wish,
तन्मे दहति गात्राणि शुष्कवृक्षमिवानलः। यदिच्छामि महाभाग त्वत्प्रसादात् परंतप॥