38. It is sometimes by the condensation of water, air or heat, that a being is produced in the form of a male or female.
39. It is sometimes from the speaking mouth of this being, and from his feet and back and the eyes, that different men are produced under the appellations of Bráhmana, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Súdras. (These Kshatriyas are born from the arms and eyes according to Manu).
40. Sometimes the great Being causes a lotus to grow out of his navel; in which is born the great Brahmá known as the lotus-born.
41. All these theories of creation (in the different sástras) are idle dreams, and as false as the dreams in our sleeping state; they are the reveries of fancy like the eddies of water.
42. Tell me what do you think of these theories in your own judgment; do they not appear as the tales told to boys?
43. Sometimes they imagine a being produced in the pure vacuity of the Divine mind, this they call the golden and mundane egg, which gave birth to the egg-born Brahmá.
44. It is said also that the first and divine Male, casts his seed in the waters, which grows up to a lotus-flower which they call the great world.
45. This lotus is the great womb of the birth of Brahmá, and at another time of the sun also; sometimes the gods Varuna and Vayu also are born of it, and are thence called oviparous.
46. Thus Ráma, are the different accounts of the production of Brahmá—the creator, so various also is the description of this unsolid and unsubstantial creation.
47. I have related to you already about the creation of one of these Brahmás, and mentioned about the production of others without specifying their several works.