Whereto the self-sprung Brahma, of unmitigated prowess, replied. O great one, do you enter into the vital energy of Mitra and Varuņa; and even then, O foremost of twiceborn ones, you shall not be born of a woman and being greatly pious shall attain to the rank of a patriarch.
देहस्यान्यस्य सद्भावे प्रसादं कर्तुमर्हसि । तमुवाच ततो ब्रह्मा स्वयंभूरमितप्रभः॥ मित्रावरुणज तेज आविश त्वं महायशः। अयोनिजस्त्वं भविता तत्रापि द्विजसत्तम्। धर्मेण महता युक्तः पुनरेष्यसि मे वशम्॥