दशवर्षसहस्राणि तपस्तप्त्वा महावने॥ पुरा स्वयम्भुवे धीरः शिरांस्युपजहार यः।
daśavarṣasahasrāṇi tapastaptvā mahāvane|| purā svayambhuve dhīraḥ śirāṃsyupajahāra yaḥ|
English Meaning
Who, possessed of calmness, having formerly for ten thousand years carried on asceticism in the mighty forest, offered his own heads to the self create one;
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)