The king said: Thereupon, the frightened great sages began to run with fear creeping up all their limbs. On seeing the discus and the inaccessibly terrible tamas closely behind them they hastened their steps saying “Alas! We have acquired the bride!” Distressed in their fright they ran as far as the Lokāloka[13] mountain. They shouted in their excess of fear—“Save us, Save us” to Viṣṇu. They went to the world of Viṣṇu and said:—“O Nārāyaṇa O lord of the universe, O Vāsudeva, O Hṛṣīkeśa, O Padmanābha, O Janārdana, save us, O lotus-eyed one. O Puruṣottama, you are our lord.” Thereupon, the glorious lord Nārāyaṇa who cannot be properly thought of, the lord with the mark of Śrīvatsa scar,[14] stopped the discus as well as the Darkness with the desire to bless his devotees.