What penance the earth must have done! The earth is indicating the path to wealth for this miserly person who suffers from poverty, by the small, graceful, auspicious foot prints of the humble black deer The earth has made itself a place of sacrifice for brāhmaṇas desiring to attain Svarga or liberation by ornamenting itself with these foot prints. Talking in this way, he would then rise up and go outside. Seeing the earth marked with its footprints, he then criticizes himself while glorifying the deer out of love. O Bharata is unfortunate! He is a useless performer of penance. What penance the earth has done that you have not done! Or, O people of the fourteen worlds! Say among you, who has done penance like the earth. You have not done as the earth has done. By describing the deer, he indicates the pleasure he derived from it. The foot prints show the way to wealth. O miserable Bharata! Why do you weep? You will obtain your treasure of life, the small deer, which has entered the forest by following the trail of its foot prints. In this way the earth is merciful to me and is pacifying me. By spreading out these foot prints as its ornaments, the earth has made itself playfully into a place of sacrifice. Smṛti says yasmin deśe mṛgaḥ kṛṣṇas tasmin dharmān nibodhata: Know that there is dharma, a place of sacrifice, where the black deer resides.