Sūta said: When the seventeenth cycle sets in duly, O Lord Brahmā, Kṛtañjaya[14] will be the Vyāsa, and I shall be born, under the name Guhāvāsa on the lofty and beautiful peak of the Himālayas, Mahālaya[15]. I shall be known as Guhāvāsin. This Mahālaya will become a Siddhakṣetra the place of sanctity. There too my sons will be conversant with yoga and expounders of Brahman. They will be noble sons and devoid of ego. They will be known as—Utathya, Vāmadeva, Mahāyoga and Mahābala. At that time, in the practice of yogic meditation, they will have hundreds and thousands of disciples. Engaged in the practice of yoga, and meditating upon the great lord within their hearts, they after observing the footprints in the Mahālaya will attain the region of the lord. The other noble souls who engage their minds in meditation at the end of Dvāpara age and the advent of Kali will become sinless and pure in intellect. Devoid of distress they will go to Rudraloka, by my grace. By visiting the sacred Mahālaya, the region of the great lord, a devotee will cross the ocean of worldly existence and redeem his ten previous and ten future generations. Thus, including himself, he will redeem twenty one generations in Mahālaya. These being free from fever will go to Rudraloka, by my grace.