Verse 17

¹⁷The drawn circle is the ground of offering to the god; the consecration is the making ready of the self; and the service of the Bhagavan is the wearing away of the self's ill-doing. ¹⁸The Bhagavan holds up the lotus of play, which is the meaning of the word bhaga; and the Bhagavan took dharma and fame for his two yak-tail fans. ¹⁹His parasol is Vaikuntha, brahmins, the abode where fear comes from nowhere; and the threefold Veda, called Suparna, carries the Person who is the sacrifice. ²⁰Sri, the revered goddess, who never leaves him, is the very self of Hari; Visvaksena is known as the form the systems take, chief of his attendants; and the eight who stand at the door, Nanda and the rest, are Hari's powers, of growing small and the rest.

²¹Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, the Person himself: this, brahmin, is what is called the array of his forms. ²²He is called the all-one, the shining one, the knowing one and the fourth, according to these workings; and the Bhagavan is thought upon through object, sense, inward mind and knowing. ²³With his limbs and lesser limbs, his weapons and his ornaments, the Bhagavan carries that set of four; four-formed is the Bhagavan Hari, the Lord.