The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 13.14.97

13.14.97

yāvacchaśāṅkaśakalāmalabaddhamaulirna prīyate paśupatirbhagavānmameśaḥ |
tāvajjarāmaraṇajanmaśatābhighātairduḥkhāni dehavihitāni samudvahāmi || 97 ||

But I want to become the slave of Hara. As long as that Lord of all creatures, the illustrious Mahesa, with crown on his head and body possessed of the pure white complexion of the lunar disc, does not become gratified with me, so long shall I cheerfully bear all those afflictions, due to a hundred repetitions of decrepitude, death and birth, that befall to the lot of embodied beings. What person in the universe can obtain tranquillity, without gratifying Rudra that is freed from decripitude and death, that is endued with the effulgence of the Sun, the Moon, or the fire, that is the root or original cause of everything real and unreal in the three worlds, and that exists as one and indivisible entity? If in consequence of my faults, rebirths be mine, I shall, in those new births, devote myself solely to Bhava.'"