Verse 19

¹⁴Told by their father to bring forth people, they went into the sea for austerity, and for ten thousand years they honoured the lord of austerity with austerity. ¹⁵What Girisa said to them, whom they had met on the road and who was pleased with them, they meditated on and muttered and worshipped, holding themselves in. ¹⁶Tell us fully, brahmin: how did the Pracetases meet the guardian of the mountain on the road, and what did Hara say to them when he was pleased? ¹⁷Brahmin sage, a meeting with Siva is hard for those who wear bodies to come by here; the sages, out of their detachment, have set their minds on him as the thing they want.

¹⁸Though he takes his pleasure in the self, the revered Bhava goes about joined to a fearful power, for the ordering of this world. ¹⁹The Pracetases, good men, took their father's word upon their heads and went towards the west, their minds set with respect on austerity.