Verse 1

¹So, Ksatta, I have told over that greatness of the supreme Self which goes by the name of time. Now hear from me how he who carries the Veda in him made what he made. ²The first maker brought forth at the outset blind dark, then dark, then great confusion, then confusion, then gloom: these are the workings of ignorance. ³Seeing that this making of his was a bad one, he did not think much of himself; and then with a mind made clean by meditation on the Bhagavan he brought forth another.