Verse 32

²⁷What the revered Suka said to Visnurata as he listened, that a company of the sun, a seven of them, lives differently month by month: ²⁸tell us their names and their works, joined as they are with their overlords; we trust in this, the array of Hari whose self is the sun. ²⁹By a not-knowing that has no beginning, belonging to Visnu who is the self of all who wear bodies, this ordering of the worlds was made, and it turns among the worlds. ³⁰For the sun is the one self of the worlds, Hari who made the beginning, the root of every rite in the Veda, spoken of by the sages in many ways. ³¹Time, place, the act, the doer, the instrument, the thing done, the scripture, the substance and the fruit: in these nine ways, brahmin, Hari is spoken of by way of the unborn power.

³²In the twelve months, Madhu and the rest, the Bhagavan takes the form of time and goes his round for the ordering of the worlds, in twelve separate companies.