With deep reverence, the sages offered their salutations to the Supreme Lord, the master of Yoga and Sāṃkhya, the revered guide of those firmly established in wisdom. They bowed to Him as the Lord who governs the stars in the heavens and the planets that wander their celestial paths. To the Lord who commands the lightning, thunder, and clouds, and who presides over the mighty roarings of the sky, they paid their homage. They honored Him as the sovereign of the vast oceans and the protector of all islands, as the Lord of towering mountains and the bringer of the nourishing rains. Their salutations extended to the ruler of rivers and streams, to the Lord who nurtures the great herbs and the majestic trees. In Him, they saw the very tree of righteousness, righteousness itself, and the Lord who sustains all that exists; to Him, who transcends all and is the supreme beyond, they bowed. They offered homage to the Lord of all tastes and the possessor of precious jewels, to the master of moments and instants, who weaves the fabric of time. Their reverence reached the Lord of days and nights, of fortnights and months, the one who rules the seasons and the measure of all things. They saluted Him as the Lord of the other half of time and the supreme half, as the preserver of the Purāṇas and the creator of worlds. The sages paid homage to the Lord of the ages of Manu and the master of Yoga, to the one who brings forth the fourfold creation and sees with infinite vision. They bowed to Him who governs the endless cycles of creation and dissolution, to the Lord of the winds, the universe, and Brahmā himself. Their salutations were offered to the Lord of knowledge and learning, to the one who upholds vows and sacred observances. To the Lord of mantras and their recitation, to the protector of ancestors and cattle, they gave their homage. They honored Him as the bull of speech, the ancient bull, the guardian of cattle, whose banner bears the bull and the sign of Indra. Their reverence went to the Lord of progenitors and the bestower of accomplishments, to the sovereign of the Daityas, Dānavas, and Rākṣasas. They saluted the Lord of the Gandharvas and Yakshas, the ruler of Garudas, serpents, and birds. Their homage extended to the master of all secret spirits and goblins, to Gokarna, the vigilant protector, and to Shankukarna. They bowed to Varaha, the immeasurable one, to Riksha, the stainless, and to the Lord of the gods and their hosts. Salutations were offered to the Lord of waters and strength, to the consort of Lakshmi, to Shripa, and to the sovereign of the earth. They honored the one who embodies both strength and weakness, the unshakable and the shaker, the one with a blazing or single horn, the bull, the one with a hump. Their homage reached firmness itself, His radiant form, the follower of brilliance, the one who is past, present, and future. They saluted the radiant, the powerful, the heroic, the unconquered, the bestower of boons, the most excellent, the person, the great soul. Their reverence included the being, the future, the mighty, the ascetic, and the giver of boons. They honored the minute and the great, the all-pervading, the Lord of bondage and liberation, of heaven and hell. They bowed to Bhava, the god, the sacrifice and the sacrificer, the one who rises, shines, is the very principle, and transcends all qualities. Their salutations reached the Lord as the noose, the weapon, the ornament; as the offered, the invoked, the well-offered, and the receiver of oblations. They honored the one worshipped and fulfilled, the twice-born of the Agnistoma, the member of the sacred assembly, the recipient of sacrificial fees and ablutions. They saluted non-violence, non-greed, the mantras for cattle and herbs, the giver of nourishment, the virtuous, and the well-behaved. Again, they honored Him as past, future, and present; the radiant, the powerful, the heroic, and the unconquered. Their homage went to the bestower of boons, the most excellent, the person, the great soul, the being, the future, the mighty, and the fearless. They saluted Jarasiddha, the iron one, the bestower of boons, the lower and the great, and the lord of the six. They bowed to the lord of the senses, the one who licks, the one adorned with garlands, the all-encompassing, the one whose form is universal, whose head is everywhere. Their salutations reached the one whose hands and feet are everywhere, Rudra, the incomparable; the oblation, the ancestral offering, the carrier of the oblation. They honored the accomplished, the pure, the desired, the one beyond sacrifice, the mighty hero, the terribly fierce, the unshakable, and the one who shakes all. Their reverence went to the one of excellent offspring, of great wisdom, radiant like the sun, awakened, pure, expansive, and wise. They saluted the gross and the subtle, the visible and the invisible in all things, the one who rains, blazes, is wind, and brings coolness. Homage was paid to Him with curling hair, mighty thighs and chest, the golden one shining like heated gold. They honored the one with odd eyes, the emblem, the tawny one of great energy, the destroyer of rain, and the gentle-eyed. Their salutations reached the smoky, the white, the black, the red, the fleshy, the tawny, the yellow, and the sword-bearer. They bowed to the one with distinctions and without distinctions, the worshipped, the revered, the support of all. They saluted the secure, the aged, the affectionate, the true being, the one who is both truth and untruth. In all these forms and attributes, the sages recognized and revered the all-pervading Lord, the source and sustainer of all that was, is, and will be.