Verse 22

¹⁹And to you, Narada, greatly pleased by the ripening of your love, the Bhagavan spoke well of yoga, and of the knowing that is his own, a lamp upon what the self truly is, which those who take refuge in Vasudeva know at once. ²⁰Holding up the line of Manu through the ages of the Manus, he bears his own splendour as a wheel unchecked in the ten directions. He laid a curb on wicked kings, spreading his own lovely fame by what he did as far as Satya, the third height. ²¹And the Bhagavan as Dhanvantari is fame itself: by his name he quickly kills the sicknesses of men who are much sick. He secured for himself a share in the sacrifice and a span of life that does not end, and coming down into the world he teaches the science of long life.

²²Thrice seven times over, with a broad-edged axe, that great one of fierce strength roots out the thorn of the earth: the kshatriya line, brought up by fate for its own ruin, set against the brahmins, having left the road, and courting the pain of hell.