Verse 4

⁴The Brahma is ten thousand, and the Padma sixty less five; the holy Vaisnava twenty-three, and the Saiva twenty-four. ⁵The holy Bhagavata eighteen, the Narada twenty-five; the Markandeya nine, and the Agni fifteen and four hundred. ⁶The Bhavisya would be fourteen, and five hundred besides; the Brahmavaivarta eighteen, and the Linga just eleven. ⁷The Varaha twenty-four; the Skanda eighty-one thousand and a hundred; and the Vamana is said to be ten. ⁸The Kurma is called seventeen, and the Matsya fourteen; the Suparna nineteen, and the Brahmanda just twelve. ⁹So the whole gathering of the old tellings is given as four hundred thousand, and within it the holy Bhagavata is held to be eighteen thousand.