Verse 1

¹Then the king was consecrated for a hundred horse sacrifices, in Brahmavarta, the field of Manu, where the Sarasvati runs east. ²Seeing in this a work that went beyond his own, the revered lord of a hundred rites could not bear the great festival of Prthu's sacrifice. ³For there the master of the sacrifice himself was present, the Bhagavan, Hari, the Lord, the self of all, teacher of every world, the ruler, ⁴with Brahma and Sarva beside him and the guardians of the worlds with their followers, sung to by the gandharvas and the sages and the hosts of apsarases. ⁵The perfected ones, the sky-going ones, the Daityas and Danavas and the hidden ones, and Hari's chief attendants with Sunanda and Nanda at their head,

⁶and Kapila and Narada and Datta, and the masters of yoga with Sanaka at their head, and the Lord's own, eager to serve him, all followed him there. ⁷There the earth, who yields dharma and yields whatever is wanted, gave out to the sacrificer every thing he desired, Bharata. ⁸The rivers carried every kind of juice, milk and curds and food and what comes from the cow; and the great tall trees bore and dripped honey. ⁹The seas brought heaps of jewels, the mountains food of the four kinds, and all the worlds with their guardians brought their gifts.