अत हैनं भार्गवो वैदर्भिः पप्रच्छ । भगवन् कत्येव देवाः प्रजां विधारयन्ते । कतर एतत् प्रकाशयन्ते । कः पुनर् एषां वरिष्ठ इति
ata hainaṃ bhārgavo vaidarbhiḥ papraccha | bhagavan katyeva devāḥ prajāṃ vidhārayante | katara etat prakāśayante | kaḥ punar eṣāṃ variṣṭha iti
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Then Bhârgava Vaidarbhi asked him: "Sir, How many gods keep what has thus been created, how many manifest this, and who is the best of them?"
Translated by F. Max Müller