Verse 5

⁵Then the lotus-born saw the lotus on which he stood, and the water, shaken by the wind whose force time had made. ⁶With his austerity growing, and by the knowledge that rests in the self, his power of understanding increased, and he drank up the wind together with the water. ⁷Seeing then the lotus on which he stood spreading out through the sky, he thought: with this I shall fashion the worlds that were dissolved before. ⁸Then, entering the cup of the lotus, urged on by the Bhagavan's own working, he divided that one thing into many: into three, and into what was to become fourteen. ⁹So much is the division of states in the world of the living, gathered together; and that highest one is the ripening of a dharma that has no motive.

¹⁰As you have spoken of Hari of many forms and wonderful deeds, brahmin, lord, describe to us that mark of his which is called time.