Verse 6
Fire out of wood· Verses 6–11
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6In her, after a long while, the Bhagavan, the slayer of Madhu, came to birth, having taken on the seed of Kardama, as fire comes out of wood. 7Then in the sky the thunderheads sounded their music, the gandharvas sang of him, and the apsarases danced for gladness. 8Heavenly flowers fell, let go by those who move in the sky, and every quarter grew clear, and the waters, and men's minds. 9The Self-born came to that hermitage ground of Kardama's, which the Sarasvati runs about, and the sages came with him, Marici and the rest. 10The unborn and self-ruling one knew, killer of enemies, that the Bhagavan, the highest Brahman, had been born with a portion of himself made of clarity, so that the counting out of what is real should be understood.
11Honouring with a mind wholly clear what that one had come to do, his breath quick with delight, he said this to Kardama: