"O Brahmana, I am not at all astonished. Behold me." O foremost of men, O sinless king, having thus addressed him, Mahadeva pressed his thumb by the tip of his own finger. O king, then from that wound came out ashes white as snow.
अहं तु विस्मयं विप्र न गच्छामीति पश्य माम्। एवमुक्त्वा नरश्रेष्ठ महादेवेनधीमता॥ अङ्गुल्यचेण राजेन्द्र स्वाङ्गुष्ठस्ताडितोऽनघ। ततो भस्म क्षताद् राजन् निर्गतं हिमसंनिभम्॥