Salutations to you who have allotted the duties of the various modes of life. Salutations to you who should be praised in sounds, who are of the form of sorrow, and who are of the form of deep and confused noise.
वर्णाश्रमाणां विधिवत् पृथक्कर्मनिवर्तिने। नमो घुष्याय घोषाय नमः कलकलाय च॥