Verse 40

³⁴Asked by the hosts of gods to be their priest, Visvarupa, great in austerity, was pleased, and spoke to them in a smooth voice. ³⁵Serving as priest is blamed by those who keep to dharma, and it spends out a brahmin's own brightness. Yet how should one like me refuse what the rulers of the worlds ask, my lords, when I am their pupil? Just that is called one's own good. ³⁶The wealth of those who have nothing is what they glean grain by grain, and by that a man carries out here the honest works of the good. How then, my masters, shall I do a blamed thing, the priest's office, in which only a poor mind takes pleasure? ³⁷Even so, how should I say no to the little my elders ask? All that you ask I will bring about, with my breath and with my goods.

³⁸Having given them his word, Visvarupa, great in austerity, being chosen, carried out the priest's office with the fullest gathering of himself. ³⁹The wealth of the gods' enemies was guarded by the knowledge of Usanas, and yet the mighty one took it from them by the knowledge that is Visnu's, and gave it to great Indra. ⁴⁰Guarded by that knowledge, the thousand-eyed, the mighty, beat the armies of the demons; and Visvarupa of the generous mind spoke it out to great Indra.