Because you, harsh and wrathful one, have abandoned your offspring, it was foretold that goddesses would be born as your portions. In the midst of these events, a goddess suddenly emerged from the tip of the tongue. She appeared clad in yellow garments, holding a vīṇā and a book, radiant and serene. After some time, this goddess assumed a dual form, reflecting the unfolding mysteries of the divine. At that very moment, Kṛṣṇa also manifested in twofold form. Śrī Kṛṣṇa addressed Vāṇī, saying, “You become his beloved.” Thus, pleased, he bestowed Lakṣmī upon Nārāyaṇa. And because you are childless, two will arise from the portion of Rādhā. These two, in brilliance, age, beauty, and qualities, are equal to Hari himself. Then, O sage, from the pore of the Lord of Goloka, by form, virtue, attire, or valor, from the pores of Rādhā’s body arose the cowherd maidens. Adorned with jeweled ornaments, they possessed ever-firm and youthful beauty. Meanwhile, O Brahmin, suddenly from Kṛṣṇa’s body appeared the goddess Nārāyaṇī, sovereign and embodiment of all powers, the seed-form of all goddesses, primal nature, and supreme Lady. She shone with the radiance of molten gold, dazzling like ten million suns. Bearing many kinds of weapons and missiles, she was three-eyed. By her portions and sub-portions, all women came into being. She is the bestower of all prosperity to those who desire, to householders, giver of liberation to seekers of freedom, and giver of happiness to the happy. Among ascetics, she is austerity; among kings, she is beauty. She is the very form of splendor in the moon, and most beautiful among lotuses. It is she by whom the self is empowered, and by whom the world is endowed with power. She is the eternal seed-form of the tree of worldly existence. Hunger, thirst, compassion, faith, sleep, drowsiness, forgiveness, fortitude—all these arise from her. Having been praised, she stood before the Lord of all. At that moment, the Four-faced One appeared, together with his wife. Bearing a water-pot, glorious and ascetic, foremost among the wise, he was accompanied by a consort fair of form, radiant like a hundred moons, most beautiful. Seated upon a splendid jeweled throne, she was praised as the cause of all things. At that very moment, Krishna became manifest in two forms. One was clear as pure crystal, shining with the brilliance of ten million suns. The other had the hue of molten gold, bearing matted locks and transcendent in form. Clad only in the directions, blue-throated, adorned with serpents as ornaments, chanting with five faces, he was the eternal light of Brahman. He is the cause of all causes, the most auspicious among all that is auspicious. Praised as Death of death, he became known as Mṛtyuñjaya. Then, Śrī Nārāyaṇa said: At the proper time, he suddenly became twofold in form, marking another turn in the divine unfolding.