Parvati said:
1. O sinless one, tell me about the vicious texts which were composed by the brahmanas bereft of devotion to the Lord. O lord of gods, tell me their names in a sequence.
Rudra said:
2-4. O goddess, listen. I shall tell you about the vicious texts in a sequence. By merely remembering them even the wise ones would be deluded, First I myself proclaimed the Shaiva, Pashupata (texts) etc. Hear about the ones which were proclaimed by the brahmanas into whom my power had entered, after that: Kanada proclaimed the great Vaisheshika text.
5-7. Similarly Gautama (proclaimed the doctrine of) Nyaya, and Kapila (proclaimed) Sankhya. Dhishana (Brihaspati) in the same way (proclaimed) the much censured Carvaka (doctrine); Vishnu of the form of Buddha proclaimed the false Buddhist doctrine and those of the naked and wearing dark blue garments for the destruction of the demons. The doctrine of Maya (illusion) is a wicked doctrine and said to be pseudo-Buddhist. I myself, of the form of a brahmana, proclaimed it in Kali (age).
8-12. It shows the meaninglessness of the words of the holy texts and is condemned in the world. In this (doctrine) only the giving up of one’s own duties is expounded. And that is said to be religiousness by those who have fallen from all duties. I have propounded the identity of the Highest Lord and the (individual) soul. I stated this Brahman’s nature to be qualityless. O goddess, I myself have conceived, for the destruction of the worlds, and for deluding the world in this Kali age, the great doctrine resembling the purport of the Vedas, (but) non-Vedic due to the principle of Maya (illusion) (present in it). By my order formerly Jaimini propounded the great doctrine of Purva Mimamsa, stating godlessness and making the Veda meaningless.