Verse 23

²³So that lord of the earth, whose charge of work had been laid on him by the Lord's wish, whose lodgings of stain were burnt out by the power of an unbroken meditation on the pair of feet of the Bhagavan, the first Person, whose power is greatest at breaking the world's bondage, ruled the surface of the earth, clean though he was, and made the great more honoured. ²⁴Then he married the daughter of Visvakarman, a lord of creatures, named Barhismati; and on her he brought into being ten sons, his own equals in conduct, in qualities, in work, in form, in strength and in generosity, and a daughter younger than they, named Urjasvati.

²⁵Agnidhra, Idhmajihva, Yajnabahu, Mahavira, Hiranyareta, Ghrtaprstha, Savana, Medhatithi, Vitihotra and Kavi: every one of them carried the name of a fire. ²⁶Of these, three, Kavi and Mahavira and Savana, kept their seed drawn up; and having become acquainted with the knowledge of the self from their childhood on, they took up only the way of the highest swans. ²⁷In that way those highest of sages, whose nature was quietness, came to be of one being with the self, with no difference left, in the inward self alone: in the Bhagavan who is the self of all beings, reached within a heart made ready by the power of a highest yoga of devotion that never slips, by an unbroken remembering of the beautiful lotus feet of the Bhagavan Vasudeva, the dwelling of the whole gathering of the living and the refuge of the frightened.

²⁸By another wife too there were three sons, Uttama, Tamasa and Raivata, who became the lords of the ages of Manu.