386 ([return])
[ Literally “be a perpetuator (son) of Yadu’s race!"
387 ([return])
[ The Bengal reading is Sa vai devas. The Bombay reading is Purvadevas.]
388 ([return])
[ The Three-stepped Lord, Vishnu became vamana or the dwarf for robbing the Asura Vali of his dominions. Disguised in that shape he asked of Vali three steps of land. Vali, smiling at the littleness of what was asked, gave it. But when the dwarf expanded his form and covered the heavens and the earth with only two steps of his, no space could be found for the third step. Vali was forthwith seized and bound as a promise-breaker, and sent to reside in the nether regions.]
389 ([return])
[ Word of command.]
390 ([return])
[ i.e., really existent among all things.]