Resolving to bring about my destruction, he took to the severest penances, and said “Let mine be a son, and not a daughter, 0 Mahadeva;
अस्मद्वधार्थ निश्चित्य तपो घोरं समास्थितः। ऋते कन्यां महादेव पुत्रो मे स्यादिति ब्रुवन्॥