atha -- then; aplutah -- having bathed; ambhasi -- in water; amale -- pure; yatha-vidhi -- according to Vedic rules; kriya -- of rituals; kalapam -- the entire sequence; paridhaya -- after dressing; vasasi -- in lower and upper garments; cakara -- He executed; sandhya-upagama -- worship at dawn; adi -- and so on; sat-tamah -- the most saintly of personalities; huta -- having offered oblations; analah -- to the sacred fire; brahma -- the mantra of the Vedas (namely Gayatri); jajapa -- He chanted quietly; vak -- speech; yatah -- controlling.

That most saintly of personalities would then bathe in sanctified water, dress Himself in lower and upper garments and perform the entire sequence of prescribed rituals, beginning with worship at dawn. After offering oblations into the sacred fire, Lord Krishna would silently chant the Gayatri mantra.