Verse 11

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: