I shall abstain from taking all food and drink, and without moving from here, O great ascetic, shall dry up my life-breaths which are sodear.
न भोक्ष्ये न च पानीयमुपभोक्ष्ये कथञ्चन॥ शोषयिष्ये प्रियान् प्राणनिहस्थोऽहं तपोधनाः।