after feeding guests and others.  From those Rishis this excellent religion was obtained by the Great Ocean.  It once more disappeared from the universe and became merged into Narayana.  In the next birth of the high-souled Brahman when he Sprang from the ear of Narayana, listen, O chief of men, to what happened in that Kalpa.  The illustrious Narayana, otherwise called Hari, when he resolved upon Creation, thought of a Being who would be puissant enough to create the universe.  While thinking of this, a Being sprang from his ears competent to create the universe.  The Lord of all called him by the name of Brahma.  Addressing Brahma, the Supreme Narayana said unto him,—­Do thou, O son, create all kinds of creatures from thy mouth and feet.  O thou of excellent vows, I shall do what will be beneficial for thee, for I shall impart to thee both energy and strength sufficient to render thee competent for this task.  Do thou receive also from me this excellent religion known by the name of Sattwata.  Aided by that religion do thou create the Krita age and ordain it duly.  Thus addressed, Brahma bowed his head unto the illustrious Hari, the god of the gods and received from him that foremost of all cults with all its mysteries and its abstract of details, together with the Aranyakas,—­viz., that cult, which sprang from the mouth of Narayana.  Narayana then instructed Brahma of immeasurable energy in that cult, and addressing him, said,—­Thou art the creator of the duties that are to be observed in the respective Yugas.  Having said this unto Brahma, Narayana disappeared and proceeded to that spot which is beyond the reach of Tamas, where the Unmanifest resides, and which is known by the men of acts without desire of fruits.  After this, the boon-giving Brahma, the Grandsire of the worlds, created the different worlds with their mobile and immobile creatures.  The age that first commenced was highly auspicious and came to be called by the name of Krita.  In that age, the religion of Sattwa existed, pervading the entire universe.[1902] With the aid of that primeval religion of righteousness, Brahma, the Creator of all the worlds, worshipped the Lord of all the deities, viz., the puissant Narayana, otherwise called Hari.  Then for the spread of that religion and desirous of benefiting the worlds, Brahman instructed that Manu who is known by the name of Swarochish in that cult.  Swarochish-Manu, that Lord of all the worlds, that foremost of all persons endued with puissance, then cheerfully imparted the knowledge of that cult to his own son, O king, who was known by the name of Sankhapada.  The son of Manu, viz., Sankhapada, communicated the knowledge of that to his own son Suvarnabha who was the Regent of the cardinal and subsidiary points of the compass.  When, upon the expiration of the Kriti Yuga, the Treta came, that cult once more disappeared from the world.  In a subsequent birth of Brahman, O best of kings, viz., that which was derived from the nose of