Birth and Death of Madhu and Kaitabha - Verse 85-86

Thus addressed Lord Rudra spoke to them: <c O Devas, Brahma’s sons, take the vital breaths from me. Make these sons of mine, the Brahmanas, the foremost ofthe first born Now you shall create, at my bidding, the seven species of people from Brahma onward to a blade of grass. They shall be of my nature. Hail unto ye all55 .