Verse 21

¹⁷The earth, overrun by hundreds of thousands of armies of Daityas in the guise of proud kings, went for refuge to Brahma under the great load of them. ¹⁸Becoming a cow, her face wet with tears, worn down and crying pitifully, she came near the mighty one and told him her trouble. ¹⁹Brahma took it in and went, with the gods and with her and with the three-eyed one, to the shore of the ocean of milk. ²⁰Going there, gathered in himself, he stood before the lord of the world, god of gods, Vrsakapi, the Person, and worshipped him with the hymn of the Person. ²¹Hearing a voice sent out in the sky while he was gathered in, the Ordainer said to the thirty: Immortals, hear the Person's word from me, and then let it be done at once, just so, without delay.