Verse 1

¹Roused to lift up the floor of the earth, the Endless took a boar's body made of all the sacrifices; and inside the great ocean he tore the first Daitya, who came at him there, with his tusk, as the holder of the thunderbolt tears a mountain. ²Born to Ruci as Suyajna, the son of Akuti, he begot with Daksina the deathless ones called Suyamas. Because he took away the great distress of the three worlds, the Manu born of the Self-born afterwards called him Hari. ³Brahmin, in Kardama's house he was born of Devahuti, along with nine women, and he told his own mother the way to the self. By it she shook off the stain upon her self, the mud of clinging to the strands, and here she reached Kapila's own state.

⁴To Atri, who wanted a child, he said, well pleased: I myself am given by me. And so that Bhagavan is Datta, the given. Yadu and Haihaya and the rest, their bodies made clean by the pollen of his lotus feet, gained the wealth of yoga in both its kinds. ⁵At the start, wanting to send forth the many worlds, I did austerity, and out of that austerity of mine he came to be as the four Sanas. He told rightly the truth of the self, lost in the flood at the close of the earlier age, and the sages saw it within themselves.