Verse 6
The descents counted in order· Verses 6–25
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6That same God first took up the Kumara creation, and as a brahmana practised the hard vow, chastity unbroken. 7Second, for the welfare of this world, the lord of sacrifice took on the body of a boar, meaning to lift up the earth that had sunk to Rasatala. 8Third, in the creation of the sages, he came as a divine sage and set forth the Satvata teaching, by which acts lead beyond acting. 9Fourth, in the creation from Dharma's portion, he became the sages Nara and Narayana and performed hard austerity joined with the stilling of the self. 10The fifth was named Kapila, lord of the perfected, who spoke to Asuri the Sankhya, the settling of the whole array of principles, which time had washed away.
11Sixth, chosen by Anasuya, he came to be Atri's son, and spoke the science of inquiry to Alarka, to Prahlada and to others. 12Then seventh, Yajna was born of Akuti to Ruci, and with the Yamas and the other bands of gods he guarded the Svayambhuva interval. 13In the eighth, the wide-strider was born of Merudevi to Nabhi, showing the road of the steadfast, honoured by every stage of life. 14Entreated by the sages, he took as his ninth a king's body; brahmanas, he milked this earth for her plants, and by that deed he is most dear. 15He took the form of a fish at the flooding of the ocean in the Caksusa age, and setting Vaivasvata Manu on a boat that was the earth, he kept him safe.
16When gods and antigods were churning the ocean, in the eleventh the mighty one bore Mount Mandara on his back in the shape of a tortoise. 17The twelfth was Dhanvantari, and the thirteenth as well: bewildering the others with the shape of an enchanting woman, he gave the gods the nectar to drink. 18Bearing the fourteenth, the man-lion, he tore the mighty lord of the Daityas open at the chest with his nails, as a mat-maker splits a reed. 19Making himself the fifteenth, a dwarf, he came to Bali's sacrifice, asking for three paces, meaning to win back the three heavens. 20In the sixteenth descent, seeing kings who wronged the brahmanas, he grew angry and thrice seven times cleared the earth of kshatriyas.
21Then in the seventeenth he was born of Satyavati to Parasara, and seeing that people were slight in understanding, he made branches of the tree of the Veda. 22Taking on the state of a god among men, wishing to accomplish the work of the gods, he performed after that such feats as the curbing of the sea. 23In the nineteenth and the twentieth, taking birth among the Vrsnis as Rama and Krsna, the Bhagavan took away the burden of the earth. 24Then, when Kali has fully set in, for the bewildering of those who hate the gods, he will appear among the Kikatas as the one named Buddha, son of Anjana. 25Then, at the joining of the ages, when kings are little better than robbers, the lord of the world will be born of Visnuyasas, Kalki by name.