See, O Indra, in the image of Mahadeva the marks of both the sexes. That god of gods, viz., Rudra, that cause of both creation and destruction, shows in his form the marks of both the sexes as the one cause of the creation of the universe.
प्रत्यक्षमिह देवेन्द्र पश्य लिङ्गं भगाङ्कितम्। देवदेवेन रुद्रेण सृष्टिसंहारहेतुना॥