Verse 1

¹Vijitasva, Prthu's son, whose fame was wide like his father's, became over-king, and being fond of his brothers he gave the quarters to the younger ones. ²The mighty one appointed the east to Haryaksa, the south to Dhumrakesa, the west to the one called Vrka, and the fourth to Dravina. ³Having got from Sakra the power of vanishing, he was called Antardhana, and he begot three children, well thought of, on Sikhandini. ⁴Pavaka, Pavamana and Suci had been fires before, and were born so by Vasistha's curse; they went back again to the course of yoga. ⁵Antardhana got Havirdhana on Nabhasvati, he who knew that Indra was the thief of the horse and still did not kill him.

⁶Holding the way kings live to be a harsh thing, with its taking of taxes and its rod and its tolls, he gave it up under cover of a long sacrificial session. ⁷And even there, seeing the self, he made offering to the swan, the Person, the supreme Self, and by a skilled gathering of the mind he came to that one's world.