Verse 87

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In plain words

Your food is poison. Your jewellery is a cobra. Your clothing is a hide, your ride a great bull. What are you going to give me — what do you even have? So give me this, Śambhu: bhakti at your lotus feet, that and nothing else.

Close to the Sanskrit

Food — poison; the hooded serpent — the ornament; garment — a hide; and the vehicle — a great bull. What will you give me? What is there? O Śambhu, give me only devotion to your lotus feet.