Verse 38

³²Bhagavan said: In an earlier bringing forth you were Prsni, good woman, in the age of the Self-born; and this man was then a lord of creatures named Sutapa, in whom there was no stain. ³³When the two of you were told by Brahma to bring forth offspring, you held in the whole crowd of your senses and then did the highest austerity. ³⁴Bearing with the seasons and their qualities, rain and wind and sun, cold and heat, you shook the dirt out of your minds by holding your breath. ³⁵Living on fallen leaves and on air, with your thoughts quieted, wanting from me the things you desired, you set about worshipping me. ³⁶As the two of you did that fierce austerity, hardest of all to do, twelve thousand years of the gods went by, and your selves were in me.

³⁷Then I was well pleased with you, faultless woman, in this same body, having been made present in your heart always by austerity, by trust and by devotion. ³⁸I showed myself, the king of the givers of boons, wanting to give you what you wished for; and when it was said, let a boon be chosen, a son like me was what you chose.