Verse 1

¹In her, Pancajana's daughter, filled out by Visnu's maya, the mighty one begot ten thousand sons called the Haryasvas. ²All those sons of Daksa were of one and the same bent in duty, king. Told by their father to bring forth creatures, they went to the western quarter. ³There is a ford there, the lake of Narayana, where the Sindhu meets the sea, a great meeting of waters, kept by sages and by the perfected. ⁴By the touching of that water alone the filth was shaken out of their hearts, and their minds rose to the way of the highest swans. ⁵Still, held by their father's word, they did a fierce austerity for the increase of creatures. As they worked at it, the sage among the gods saw them.