Verse 12

⁶As he was about to make it his own, a man dark to look at came up from the north and said to him: This wealth left on the ground is mine. ⁷This was given to me by the sages, said Manu's descendant. Then let the question between the two of us go to your father. And he asked his father accordingly. ⁸Everything left over on a sacrificial ground the sages once made into a share for Rudra. That god has a right to all of it. ⁹Nabhaga bowed to him and said: Lord, what is left on the ground is indeed yours. So my father tells me. Brahmin, with my head down I ask your favour. ¹⁰What your father told you is dharma, and you speak the truth. To you, who see the mantras, I give knowledge, the everlasting Brahman.

¹¹Take the wealth that was given, the leavings of my session. Saying this Rudra vanished, the revered one who is tender to what is true. ¹²Whoever remembers this in the morning and in the evening with a settled mind becomes wise, and a knower of the mantras, and comes to know the way his own self goes.