Indra said What is your object, О foremost of virtuous persons, in thus trying to see that Ancient and First of gods, viz., Narayana, of inconceivable power, and numberless illusions.
इन्द्र उवाच किमिष्यते धर्मभृतां वरिष्ठ यद् द्रष्टुकामोऽसि तमप्रमेयम्। अनन्तमायामितमन्त्रवीर्य नारायणं ह्यादिदेवं पुराणम्॥