With his limbs he never perpetrated even the slightest crime. The seven celebrated Rishis, viz., Marichi, Atri, Angiras, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, and Vashishtha, who passed by the name of Chitra-shikhandins, uniting together on the breast of that foremost of mountains, viz., Meru, promulgated an excellent work on duties and observances which were consistent with the four Vedas. The contents of that work were uttered by seven mouths, and fomed the best compendium of human duties and obsevances. Known, as already stated, by the name of ChitraShikhandins, those seven Rishis form the seven elements, and the Self-born Manu, who is the eighth in the number, formed original Nature. These eight keep up the universe, and it was these eight who promulgated the treatise referred to.