Verse 1

¹When the Bhagavan had vanished, how many kinds of creatures did Brahma, grandfather of the world, the mighty one, send forth, from his body and from his mind? ²And those matters, revered one, which I have asked of you, most learned of all: tell them in their order and cut away every doubt of ours. ³Urged so by the Ksatta, the sage, son of Kusaru, was pleased, Bhargava, and answered those questions that lay in his heart. ⁴Virinca too performed austerity for a hundred divine years, entering his self into the Self, as the unborn Bhagavan had told him.