Do you, therefore, O ascetic, do what I command you!-In obedience to this command of the Supreme Lord from whose Speech the Rishi Apantaratamas came into being, the latter, in that Kalpa which is named from the Self-born Manu, distributed and arranged the Vedas.
तस्मात् कुरु यथाऽऽज्ञप्तं ममैतद् वचनं मुने॥ सेन भिन्नास्तदा वेदा मनोः स्वायम्भुवेऽन्तरे।