Verse 33

³³with his wife and his children he took his pleasures without crossing anyone, while the singers of the gods and their women sang his good fame; and at the turn of dawn he listened to the accounts of Hari with a heart tied to them. ³⁴Svayambhuva Manu was a sage well versed in the workings of yogamaya and given over to the Bhagavan, and pleasures could not throw him down. ³⁵The watches of his day never went stale but carried his whole age through, as he listened to the accounts of Visnu, and meditated on them, and acted them, and told them. ³⁶So he carried his own age through seventy-one ages of the world, and because he was taken up with Vasudeva the three courses were left behind him.

³⁷Son of Vyasa, how should pains of the body and of the mind, those that come from the gods and from men and from the elements, trouble a man who has taken shelter in Hari? ³⁸Asked by the sages, he spoke of the many good dharmas of men and of the classes and the stages, being always the good of every living thing. ³⁹This wonderful life of Manu, the first king, who is worth the telling, has now been told you. Hear next of the rising of his children.