In that cycle when the Creator Brahman, O king, took his birth in the mind of Narayana and came out from the latter's mouth, Narayana himself, performed, O Bharata, his divine and ancestral rites in accordance with this religion. Those Rishis who live upon the froth of water then got it from Narayana.
यदासीन्मानसं जन्म नारायणमुखोद्गतम्। ब्रह्मणः पृथिवीपाल तदा नारायणः स्वयम्॥ तेन धर्मेण कृतवान् दैवं पित्र्यं च भारत। फेनपा ऋषयश्चैव तं धर्म प्रतिपेदिरे॥