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sa kinnarān kimpuruṣān
pratyātmyenāsṛjat prabhuḥ
mānayann ātmanātmānam
ātmābhāsaṁ vilokayan
saḥ — Lord Brahmā; kinnarān — the Kinnaras; kimpuruṣān — the Kimpuruṣas; pratyātmyena — from his reflection (in water); asṛjat — created; prabhuḥ — the lord of the living beings (Brahmā); mānayan — admiring; ātmanā ātmānam — himself by himself; ātma-ābhāsam — his reflection; vilokayan — seeing.
One day, Brahmā, the creator of the living entities, beheld his own reflection in the water, and admiring himself, he evolved Kimpuruṣas as well as Kinnaras out of that reflection.