17. The lord and creator of worlds, seeing the misery of these people, felt compassion for them, as a father does for his children.
18. He then pondered within himself for a moment with intensity of thought and for the good of all creatures, how to exterminate the misery of these beings who were subjected to death and despair.
19. With this thought the lord god (Brahmá), established himself the rules of austerity, piety, charity, veracity and pilgrimage.
20. Having established these, the lord and creator again thought within himself, how to make an end of the many miseries of the men he had created.
21. He thought upon self-extinction as the Supreme bliss, which was obtainable only through a knowledge of the Deity, and whereby man might be exempted from repeated births and deaths.
22. It was divine knowledge, he thought, the only means of men’s crossing over (the ocean) of this world; but austerity, charity and pilgrimage were no means to it. (But mere preparatives to knowledge).
23. Upon this said he “I will immediately make a new and sure bridge for the salvation of men and for their liberation from pain.”
24. Having thought so, the lord Brahmá sitting on the lotus, meditated in his mind, and produced me from himself.
25. Being thus produced, I stood forthwith in the presence of my progenitor, as a wave rising from the sea leans towards it.
26. I then bowed down to the god who held a water-pot in one hand and a rosary in the other, with a pitcher and a bead of seeds in my either hand, and was thus addressed by him.