Verse 16

⁹Comforted in this way by what the brahmins said, king Citraketu wiped with his hand a face gone dull with distress, and spoke. ¹⁰Who are you two, full of knowledge and greatest among the great, who have come here hidden, in the dress of men who have shaken everything off? ¹¹For brahmins dear to the Bhagavan go about the earth as they please, wearing the marks of madmen, to wake up dull-witted villagers like me. ¹²Kumara, Narada, Rbhu, Angiras, Devala, Asita, Apantaratamas, Vyasa, Markandeya, and Gautama; ¹³Vasistha, the revered Rama, Kapila, the son of Badarayana, Durvasas and Yajnavalkya, Jatukarna and Aruni; ¹⁴Romasa, Cyavana, Datta, Asuri with Patanjali, the sage Vedasiras, Bodhya, and the sage Pancasikha;

¹⁵Hiranyanabha of Kosala, Srutadeva, Rtadhvaja — these and other lords of perfection go about the world, and they are the causes of knowledge. ¹⁶So for me, a village animal with a dulled mind, sunk in a blind dark, let the lamp of knowledge be raised up by you two, masters.