Verse 22

¹⁸Well asked, good one, by you, who do the worlds a real kindness and spread through the world the fame of your own self, whose self is the one beyond the reach of the senses. ¹⁹This is no wonder in you, Ksatta, born of Badarayana's own strength, that you have taken hold of Hari the Lord with a mind that turns to nothing else. ²⁰By the curse of Mandavya, the revered Yama, who gathers creatures in, was born in his brother's field, from a serving woman, by the son of Satyavati. ²¹You are always held in regard by the Bhagavan and by those who follow him; and it was for the teaching of knowledge to you that the Bhagavan appointed me as he went.

²²So I shall describe to you in their order the plays of the Bhagavan, made great by his yogamaya, which are for the standing and the rising and the ending of all this.