A person who is shorn of every auspicious mark and who is stained by every sin, destroys all his sins by meditating upon Shiva.
यजेद् देवं विरूपाक्षं न स पापेन लिप्यते। सर्वलक्षणहीनोऽपि युक्तो वा सर्वपातकैः॥