Verse 11

⁶Great sage, the question you have put takes away the world's confusion, for the account of Narayana is sung in it, and that takes away the filth of the Kali age. ⁷Markandeya received the rite that makes a man twice-born, in due order from his father, and having studied the metres as dharma asks, he joined himself to austerity and recitation. ⁸He held the great vow. He was quiet, his hair matted, bark for his clothing, and he carried a water pot, a staff, the sacred thread with its girdle, ⁹a black deerskin, a string of beads, and kusa grass, all for the increase of his observance; and at the two joints of the day he honoured Hari in fire, in the sun, in his teacher, in the brahmins and in himself.

¹⁰Evening and morning he brought the begged food to his teacher and kept his speech in check. He ate once, when his teacher allowed it, and if he did not allow it he went without. ¹¹So, given over to austerity and recitation for ten thousand times ten thousand years, worshipping the lord of the senses, he conquered death, which is very hard to conquer.