O best of men, he recollected the words he had heard in the abode of Brahma; regarding the Angshavatarana, (incarnations of portions of every deity).
सस्मार च पुरा वृत्तां कथां तां पुरुषर्षभ। अंशावतरणे यासौ ब्रह्मणो भवनेऽभवत्॥