Verse 16

¹⁶This, best of the Kurus, is what Hari said, well pleased, to the elephant king, with all beings listening: he who pervades all and is made of all beings. ¹⁷Bhagavan said: Those who remember me, and you, and this lake, and this mountain with its caves and its woods, the thickets of cane and hollow bamboo and reed, the trees of the gods, ¹⁸these peaks, these seats of Brahma and of me and of Siva, the ocean of milk, my dear dwelling, and Svetadvipa the shining, ¹⁹the Srivatsa mark, the Kaustubha jewel, the garland, my mace Kaumodaki, the Sudarsana, the Pancajanya, and Suparna the lord of birds, ²⁰and Sesa, a subtle portion of me, and the goddess Sri, who has her stand in me, and Brahma, and the sage Narada, and Bhava, and Prahlada too,

²¹the acts of endless merit I have done in my descents, beginning with the fish and the tortoise and the boar, and the sun, the moon, and the eater of offerings, ²²the syllable Om, truth, the unshown, cows and brahmins, unwasting dharma, the daughters of Daksa, the wives of Dharma and those of Soma and Kasyapa as well, ²³Ganga, Sarasvati, Nanda, Kalindi, the white elephant, Dhruva, the seven brahmin sages, and those men whose verses are holy: