Sūta said: Even as the bountiful lord was playing (with the lotus), Brahmā, who was born of the cosmic Egg of golden womb, who had golden colour, who was beyond the pale of the sense-organs, who had four faces and large eyes came near the lord casually. On seeing Viṣṇu of splendid eyes sporting with the lotus that was glorious, divine, splendid and fragrant, Brahmā was surprised and asked in a tone filled with gentleness—