'That enemy named Devadatta, hard to conquer, has been slain by me; and I shall slay others too, those other wretches. What will these ascetics do? In every way there is none equal to me. How am I a lord; I am an enjoyer; and in every way I am accomplished, possessed of sons and grandsons; not a mere man, I am strong and happy.' Others, in their view, have been brought forth only as a burden on the earth.

That foe has been slain by me, the powerful one; the other foes too I, the heroic and steady one, shall slay. What use here of the apparatus of the unseen and the rest, devised by the weak and the dull-witted? And so 'I am the Lord, I am my own master, and I myself am the governor of others. I am an enjoyer; of myself I am an enjoyer, not by the unseen and the rest. I am accomplished, of myself accomplished, not from any unseen cause and the rest.' Likewise, of myself powerful, of myself happy.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.