With concentrated mind, he was stable at one place in the sky and his limbs were extremely white and pretty
His mind was absorbed in the fish and he was not seeing anyone else.367.
These the Guru went and took bath and getting up mediated on the Lord,
But that enemy of the fish, concentrated his attention on the fish even till sunset.368.
He remained unwavered in the sky and did not even think of the sunset
Seeing him, the great sage observed silence and accepted him as the Seventeenth Guru.369.
End of the description of the adoption of the Fishing Bird as the Seventeenth Guru.
Now begins the description of the adoption of a Hunter as the Eighteenth Guru
TOTAK STANZA
After taking bath and singing the praises of the Lord, the sage went into the forest,
Where there were the trees of saal and tamaal and in the dense shade of those trees, the light of the sun could not reach.370.
There the sage a tank and also within the foliage he saw a hunter looking splendid like gold.371.
He had in his hand a bow and arrows of white colour, with which he had killed many deer
The sage came out from that side of the forest alongwith his people.372.
Many persons of the magnificence of gold,
Accompanied the sage Dutt and they all saw that hunter.373.
Those sages raised thunderous sound an dreadful tumult at that place and
Scattering at various places they began to have their food and drink.374.
Those sages smeared their white bodies with ashes, practiced various postures and
Performed various Karmas like Neoli (Purging of intestines), while wandering in all the four directions.375.
They absorbed themselves in various practices completely without the element of lust
Their matted locks appeared the manifestation of the matted locks of Shiva.376.
Their Yogic matted locks waved like the waves of the Ganges emanating from Shiva
They performed various kinds of austerities following the practices of earlier ascetics.377.
All the various practices which have been described in Shrutis (Vedas), they were all performed by these sages