"Princess, you may say that, but how can you get my mercy without having performed pious acts in the past to attain me?" "In order to attain you in a future life, in this life I will practice celibacy and austerities. If after one life’s activities I do not attain you, then I will perform activities for a million lives. It is impossible for me to erase my desire to attain you." "But you have also performed many sinful activities which will prevent you from attaining me." "It is certain that all these sins will be removed by your lotus feet, which I will attain by my austerities. The great devotees like Siva desire to bathe in the dust of your lotus feet in order to destroy at the root their ignorance. I will also destroy all my sins by bathing in the dust of your lotus feet, which I will attain by austerities. If I do not attain your mercy, then I will give up my life by fasting." "What will you accomplish by that?" "I will give up my life time after time for hundreds of births until I attain your mercy. O Lord with lotus eyes, longing for the glance of those lotus eyes is the cause of my performing such austerities!"

Great persons bathe in the dust of your feet. This suggests a great tīrtha like Gaṅgā in which people bathe. Or snapanam can indicate sprinkling the dust on their bodies. Great persons like Brahmā take this dust to destroy at the root (apahatyai) their ignorance. The example of Śiva is given. He is famous for holding Gaṅgā on his head, desiring to cleanse himself of contamination. He is the controlling deity of ignorance and removes that ignorance by bathing in the Gaṅgā. Just as Umā in another birth married Śiva, a great ātmārāma, you should marry me. Because of your supreme position, you should be my husband and no one else. And you should do this because of your supreme beauty. O lotus-eyed Lord! Yasya should correspond to tasya in the main clause but instead bhavat is used for metrical reasons. If I do not attain your mercy in the form of accepting me as your wife, then I will give up (jahyām) my life. The potential form of the verb is used to suggest cause (giving up life and attaining his mercy.) Hetu-hetumator liṅ: the potential form is used to denote cause and effect. (Pāṇini 3.3.156) There is a great possibility of this happening because of great pain of love. The method of giving up life is starving the body through vows. I will die in grief for hundreds of births in order to get your mercy. Or, doing vows to attain you, my body becomes naturally thin. The life airs leave on their own on not attaining your mercy. It will be easy to give up my life. Since it is so easy to do, I will do this for hundreds of lives. Vrata-kṛśa is an alternate version. “Hundreds of births” indicates an indefinite number. This is a statement she makes by absorption in human pastimes. Or “You are not qualified to be my wife. How can I marry you?” That is true since you are rarely attained even by Brahmā and others. I am only a daughter of a kṣatriya. But I will try to attain you hundreds by giving up my life for many births. She then speaks this verse. Though the great desire your foot dust even today they do not attain it. I shall give up my life by austerities for of births. It is possible I will attain your mercy after hundreds of births. Why will you do this? You cause great pain because of your great beauty, O lotus-eyed lord! Or, “I am suffering separation from the gopīs within. I cannot marry you. Marry someone else who has great qualities and beauty ” Seeing no other way, she decides to undergo great austerities up to even death and then he will change his mind out of compassion and fear of committing adharma by killing a woman. Then she speaks this verse.