ever engaged in ascetic penances, like a thousand suns collected together, and blazing with his own effulgence.  Trident in hand, matted locks on the head, of snow-white colour, he was robed in bark and skin.  Endued with great energy, his body seemed to be flaming with a thousand eyes.  And he was seated with Parvati and many creatures of brilliant forms (around him).  And his attendants were engaged in singing and playing upon musical instruments, in laughing and dancing, in moving and stretching their hands, and In uttering loud shouts.  And the place was perfumed with fragrant odours, and Rishis that worshipped Brahma adored with excellent hymns of unfading glory, that God who was the protector of all creatures, and wielded the (great) bow (called Pinaka).  Beholding him, Vasudeva of righteous soul, with Partha, touched the earth with his head, uttering the eternal words of the Veda.  And Krishna adored, with speech, mind, understanding, and acts, that God who is the first source of the universe, himself uncreate, the supreme lord of unfading glory:  who is the highest cause of the mind, who is space and the wind, who is the cause of all the luminous bodies (in the firmament), who is the creator of the rain, and the supreme, primordial substance of the earth, who is the object of adoration, with the gods, the Danavas, the Yakshas, and human beings; who is the supreme Brahma that is seen by Yogins and the refuge of those acquainted with Shastras, who is the creator of all mobile and immobile creatures, and their destroyer also; who is the Wrath that burns everything at the end of the Yuga; who is the supreme soul; who is the Sakra and Surya, and the origin of all attributes.  And Krishna sought the protection of that Bhava, whom men of knowledge, desirous of attaining to that which is called the subtle and the spiritual, behold; that uncreate one is the soul of all causes.  And Arjuna repeatedly adored that Deity, knowing that he was the origin of all creatures and the cause of the past, the future, and the present.  Beholding those two, viz., Nara and Narayana arrived, Bhava of cheerful soul, smilingly said unto them, ’Welcome are ye, ye foremost of men!  Rise up and let the fatigue of your journey be over.  What, O heroes, is the desire in your heart?  Let it be uttered quickly.  What is the business that has brought you hither?  I will accomplish it and do what would benefit you.  I will grant everything ye may desire., Hearing those words of the god, they both rose.  And then with joined hands, the faultless Vasudeva and Arjuna, both of great wisdom, began to gratify that high-souled deity with an excellent hymn.  And Krishna and Arjuna said, ’We bow to Bhava, to Sarva, to Rudra, to the boon-giving deity.  We bow to the lord of all creatures endued with life, to the god who is always fierce, to him who is called Kapardin!  We bow to Mahadeva, to Bhima, to the Three-eyed, to him who is peace and contentment.  We bow to Isana, to him who is the destroyer of (Daksha’s)