Verse 31

²⁶Twice-born ones, though he was thus always at work for the good of beings, and with his whole being, his heart even so was not satisfied. ²⁷His heart not much at ease, seated apart on the clean bank of the Sarasvati, turning it over, the knower of dharma said this: ²⁸With my vows held firm and without any pretence, I have honoured the metres, the teachers and the fires, and I have taken up what they instruct. ²⁹And under the name of the Bharata the meaning of the tradition has been shown, where dharma and the rest can be seen even by women and by sudras. ³⁰Yet even so, alas, my embodied self, and the pervading self as well, appear unfulfilled, for all that they stand highest in the lustre of sacred learning.

³¹Or is it that I have not, for the most part, set out the dharma of the Lord's own, dear to the highest swans, and dear indeed to the Unfallen himself?