He is steadfast and wise, the three-eyed Lord, ever engaged in beneficent deeds, the master of battles and the protector of cows, the sovereign of herds and villages, clad in cowhide, known as Hara. His arms gleam like gold; he dwells in caves, stands as the entrance to all, possesses a magnanimous mind, and is filled with great yearning—ever seeking the mind and conquering the senses. He is Gandhara, the drinker of wine, devoted to ascetic practices that benefit the world, the great element supporting all beings, ever attended by hosts of Apsaras. His banner is mighty, he upholds the earth, and is constantly manifest in countless forms. He is the very tone, unknowable yet knowable, all-pervading, and the bringer of happiness. He is the deliverer, the one with feet, the creator and the enclosure, highly worshipped, the uniter and increaser, aged and yet the courtesan, lord of hosts. Eternal and supportive, he is the companion, lord of gods and asuras, the master, endowed with strength, the excellent god of auspicious joints. He is Ashadha and Sushadha, bearer of Skanda, green in hue, the remover, revolving in form, assuming other, supreme, and great forms. He touches the head, adorned with every mark and characteristic, imperishable, praised in chariot songs, enjoyer of all pleasures, and mighty in strength. He is of the Sama Veda and the great Veda, the god of sacred fords, renowned, lifeless yet giver of life, the mantra, gracious and severe. His nature is gem-like, his limbs like jewels; he knows the fall into the great ocean, the root and the vast, immortal, manifest and unmanifest, the treasure of austerity. He is ascent and mounting, bearer of virtue, of great austerity, great-throated, the supreme yogi, the yoke, maker of ages, and remover. He is the form of the age, the great form, the vehicle, the deep, the mountain, justice, extinguisher, footless, learned, and as immovable as a mountain. He is adorned with many garlands, of great garland, shining, with beautiful eyes, vast, saline, the well, flower-bodied, and the source of fruits. He is the bull, the mighty bull, the breaker, with matted locks adorned with jewels, the moon, emission, beautiful-faced, heroic, armed with all weapons, and enduring. He is the one to whom offerings are made, born of nectar, the gate to heaven, of great bow, dwelling in the mountain, emission, and knower of all marks and characteristics. He is adorned with fragrant garlands, the blessed one, endless, possessing all marks, progenitor, abundant, strong-armed, complete, and purifier of all. He holds a hand-bowl, bears a skull, with upper teeth joined, youthful, renowned for machines and devices, the world, the refuge of all, and gentle. He is shaven-headed, deformed, monstrous, staff-bearing, earringed, ever-changing, water-eyed, the quarters, wielder of the thunderbolt, blazing in brilliance, and thousand-footed. He is thousand-headed, lord of gods, composed of all gods, the teacher, thousand-armed, of all limbs, the refuge, and creator of all worlds. He is pure, the threefold sweet mantra, the youngest, dark-tawny, creator of Brahma's staff, destroyer of hundreds, and bearer of a hundred nooses. He is time itself—Kala, kashtha, lava, matra, muhurta, day, night, kshana; the giver of the field of the universe, the seed, the primal linga, the one without faces. He is existence and non-existence, manifest and unmanifest, father, mother, grandfather; the gate to heaven, to liberation, to creation, the threefold heaven. He is liberation, the heart, the world of Brahma, the supreme path, creator and final refuge of gods and asuras alike. He is the teacher of gods and asuras, worshipped by them, the great minister and refuge of their hosts. He is their overseer and leader, god of gods, divine seer, bestower of boons. He is lord of gods and asuras, Vishnu, the great lord composed of all gods, inconceivable, the very soul of divinities, self-born. He has risen up, three-stepped, physician, bestower of boons, younger, sky-clad, worshipped, elephant, tiger, lion of the gods, and great bull. He is foremost among the wise, best and supreme among the gods, united, splendid, the speaker, the origin of the directions, imperishable. He is teacher and beloved, his own creation, pure, bearer of all, horned and fond of horns, tawny, king of kings, free from disease. He is charming, the excellent refuge, free from affliction, the means of all, with a forehead eye, body of the universe, deer, and radiant as Brahma. Lord of the immovable, controller of the senses, accomplished, the purpose of all beings, inconceivable, true, of pure vows. He is lord of vows, the supreme Brahman, the highest goal of the liberated, free, with loosened hair, glorious, increaser of prosperity, the world itself. Thus, in this principal order, the Blessed One—Shambhu—has been praised with devotion; with devotion foremost, I have praised the Lord of sacrifice, the all-pervading one. Having obtained permission, thus praised, he is the goal of the devoted; receiving this hymn of Shambhu, the king, renowned in the three worlds, attained the fruit of a thousand horse sacrifices and the lordship of hosts through the brilliance of Tandin, the Lord. Whoever recites, hears, or causes Brahmins to hear this hymn truly attains the merit of a thousand horse sacrifices. Even those burdened with the gravest sins—a slayer of a Brahmin, a drinker of liquor, a thief, one violating the teacher’s bed, a killer of one who has sought refuge, or betrayer of a friend’s trust; a killer of mother, father, hero, or embryo—by reciting this for a year, at the three junctions of the day, in Shankara’s hermitage, and worshipping the god at those times, is freed from all sins. Thus, by the grace of the Lord of gods and through dedicated effort, Tridhanvan attained the fruit equal to a thousand horse sacrifices.