Karika 70

एतत्पवित्रमग्र्यं मुनिरासुरयेऽनुकम्पया प्रददौ।
आसुरिरपि पञ्चशिखाय तेन बहुधा कृतं तन्त्रम्॥ ७०॥

Translation by Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1837): This great purifying (doctrine) the sage compassionately imparted to Ásuri, Ásuri taught it to Panchasikha, by whom it was extensively propagated.

Translation by John Davies (1881): This supreme purifying doctrine the sage compassionately imparted to Asuri; Asuri taught it to Panchaśikha, by whom it was extensively made known.

Translation by Ganganath Jha (1896): This supreme, purifying (doctrine) the sage imparted to Âsuri, who taught it to Panchasikha, by whom the science was extensively propagated.

Translation by Nandalal Sinha (1915): This foremost purifying knowledge the Muni, through compassion, imparted to Âsuri; Âsuri, again, to Pañchaśikha, by whom the System was elaborated in manifold ways.

Translation by Har Dutt Sharma (1933): This sacred and supreme (knowledge), the sage (Kapila) gave to Āsuri out of compassion. Āsuri also (gave it) to Pan̄caśikha, who elaborated the doctrine.

Translation by Radhanath Phukan (1960): This pure supreme knowledge was first imparted by the sage to Āsuri out of kindness to him and by Āsuri also to Pañcaśikha, and he (Pañcaśikha) elaborated it in various ways (or spread it in various places).

Translation by Swami Virupakshananda (1995): This foremost, purifying doctrine, the sage (Kapila) imparted to Āsuri out of compassion; Āsuri taught it to Pañcaśikhā, by whom this doctrine was propounded extensively.

Translation by G. Srinivasan (recent): This original and fundamental doctrine the sage gave to Asuri who in turn handed down to Panchasikha by whom it was extensively propagated as the perfect set of principles explaining the mode of action in reality that can be verified intellectually.