Bṛhaspati replied:: Rice and other food-grains grow through rain, therefrom is the origin of the worlds (peoples). Since they develop and strengthen the Soma (moon) and the rice (food grains) due to their Yogic power (or by means of their contact), they call them Pitṛs (fathers) of the worlds. They are the most excellent ones in the worlds; they have the speed of the mind; they have Svadhā for their food, they have sublimated all their desires; they have got rid of greed, delusion and fear; they are devoid of cares and anxieties, they have got rid of their griefs.