The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c17.139

v2.c17.139

“Brahmā replied, ‘I salute thee, the lord of the universe, who bearest a clear resplendence like that of the moon, whose clotted hair is the seat of Gaṅgā; whose two arms are adorned with the skin of an elephant and with a skull; who bearest in thy hands a trident, a bow (*pināka*), a deer, an emblem of encouragement, a young elephant, a hatchet, a goad, and an arrow; who art three-eyed, and dressed in a tiger skin fastened with snakes. I salute thee, Śambhu, who art the greatest of the great, holy, ancient, disengaged from the world, conducive to the attainment of the great end (final beatitude), and propitious. Thou knowest that I meditate upon the light of thy feet. O lord, I am seized with trepidation at the sight of thy incomparably formidable shape, and Ravi, Purandara, Candra, and others are frightened. Do thou, therefore, hiding this form, shew us that which is composed of the quality of goodness.'