Verse 16

¹⁶Sage, I know the first Person, come down by his own maya, bearing the body they call Kapila, the treasure-house of all living beings. ¹⁷By the yoga of knowledge and of knowing fully he pulls up the tangled roots of works. His hair is golden, his eyes are lotuses, and his lotus feet carry the mark of the lotus. ¹⁸Daughter of Manu, it is he, the crusher of Kaitabha, who has entered your womb. He will cut the knot of ignorance and doubt and go about the earth. ¹⁹He is the head of the company of the perfected, well thought of by the teachers of enumeration. In the world he will go by the name Kapila, and he will make your renown grow.

²⁰Having comforted the two of them, the maker of the world, a swan himself, went with the boys and with Narada by his swan carriage to the highest place, the threefold abode.