30. As the six seasons of the year attain respec- tively their peculiar marks in due time and of their own accord, even so the several acts of each em- bodied spirit attend it naturally. 31. That the human race might be multiplied, He 'caused the Bráhmen, the Cshatriya, the Vaisya, and 32. Having divided his own substance, the mighty 'Power became half male, half female, or nature active 33. Know Me, O most excellent of Bráhmens, to 'be that person, whom the male power VIRA's, having 6 34. It was I, who, desirous of giving birth to a race ' of men, performed very difficult religious duties, and 'first produced ten Lords of created beings, eminent in 35. MARICHI, ATRI, ANGIRAS, PULASTYA, PULAHA, 6 36. They, abundant in glory, produced seven other 37. 'Benevolent genii, and fierce giants, blood-thirsty CHAP. savages, heavenly quiristers, nymphs and demons, huge serpents and snakes of smaller size, birds of mighty 6 6 Lightnings and thunder-bolts, clouds and co- loured bows of Indra, falling meteors, earth-rending 39. Horse-faced sylvans, apes, fish, and a variety of birds, tame cattle, deer, men, and ravenous beasts 6 41. Thus was this whole assemblage of stationary ⚫ and movable bodies framed by those high-minded 6 6 6 42. Whatever act is ordained for each of those creatures here below, that I will now declare to you, 43. Cattle and deer, and wild beasts with two rows of teeth, giants, and blood-thirsty savages, and the race of men, are born from a secundine; 6 45. From hot moisture are born biting gnats, lice, fleas, and common flies; these, and whatever is of 46. All vegetables, propagated by seed or by slips, grow from shoots: some herbs, abounding in flowers 47. Other plants, called lords of the forest, have no flowers, but produce fruit; and, whether they have 48. There are shrubs with many stalks from the 49. These animals and vegetables, encircled with 'multiform darkness, by reason of past actions, have 50. All transmigrations, recorded in sacred books, 51. HE, whose powers are incomprehensible, hav- 52. When that Power awakes, (for, though slumber 'be not predicable of the sole eternal Mind, infinitely wise and infinitely benevolent, yet it is predicated of BRAHMA', figuratively, as a general property of life) 'then has this world its full expansion; but, when he 53. For, while he reposes, as it were, in calm sleep, 'embodied spirits, endued with principles of action, depart from their several acts, and the mind itself 'becomes inert ; 54. And when they once are absorbed in that su- preme essence, then the divine soul of all beings ' withdraws his energy, and placidly slumbers; 55. Then too this vital soul of created bodies, with 6 56. When, being again composed of minute ele- 57. Thus that immutable Power, by waking and re- succession, this whole assemblage of locomotive and 58. HE, having enacted this code of laws, himself 59. This my son BHRIGU will repeat the divine code 'to you without omission; for that sage learned from 60. BHRIGU, great and wise, having thus been ap- pointed by MENU to promulge his laws, addressed all 6 Sprung from the self-existing, came six descendants, SWA'RO'CHISHA, AUTTAMI, TA'MASA, RAIVATA like- wise and CHA'CSHUSHA, beaming with glory, and VAI- 63. The seven MENUS, (or those first created, who are to be followed by seven more) of whom SWA'YAM- |