Verse 38

³⁸He laughed a laugh deep with feeling, and out of his loveliness, which breathed in its own self by itself, the revered one sent forth the troops of gandharvas and apsarases. ³⁹He let go that body of his, dear and full of grace, which is moonlight; and those very ones, with Visvavasu at their head, took it up gladly. ⁴⁰And out of his own sluggishness the revered one sent forth the ghosts and the flesh-eaters; and seeing them naked with their hair loose, he shut his eyes. ⁴¹They took up that body of the lord which he had let go, the one called yawning. It is sleep, in which the loosening of the senses is seen among living beings; and that by which they seize people whose mouths are unclean is called madness.

⁴²Holding himself to be full of strength, the revered one, the unborn lord, sent forth out of what is unseen the troops of Sadhyas and the companies of the fathers. ⁴³The fathers took to themselves that body which was the source of their own sending out; and it is through that body that the wise spread offerings to the Sadhyas and to the fathers. ⁴⁴By disappearing he sent forth the siddhas and the vidyadharas, and gave them that wonderful self of his which is called vanishing. ⁴⁵Honouring himself by himself and looking at his own reflection, the lord sent forth the kinnaras and the kimpurusas out of that reflected being.

⁴⁶They took up that form which the highest one had let go; and, paired off, they sing of him at daybreak, telling over his doings.