एष पन्था नरव्याघ्र मुहर्तं पश्य तात माम्। यावज्जहामि गात्राणि जीर्णां त्वचमिवोरगः॥
eṣa panthā naravyāghra muhartaṃ paśya tāta mām| yāvajjahāmi gātrāṇi jīrṇāṃ tvacamivoragaḥ||
English Meaning
This is your course, you best of men. Do you now, my child, for a space look at me; while I leave of my limbs, even as a serpent renounces its slough.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)