Verse 33

²⁷His tail lifted, moving in the sky, hard, shaking his mane, his skin rough and bristled, striking the clouds with his hooves, his tusks white, the light in his glance: so the Bhagavan, holder of the earth, shone. ²⁸Smelling out the track of the earth with his nose, going by the name of a boar, himself the limbs of the sacrifice, his tusks terrible but his two eyes not terrible, he looked up at the brahmins who were praising and went down into the water. ²⁹The sea, its belly torn open by the force of that body falling like a peak of adamant, thundered, and threw up its long waves like arms, and cried out as though in pain: lord of sacrifice, keep me safe.

³⁰Then, tearing the waters with hooves like razor-heads, he of the three joints went to where the shore lies beyond all shore, down in the deep; and there he saw the earth, which he himself, meaning to sleep, had laid down before as the holder of living things. ³¹Lifting the sunken earth up on his tusk, he rose out of the deep and shone. And there a Daitya came rushing at him with a mace, and his fierce anger was kindled by the fine-naveled one. ³²He killed the one who blocked him, whose might was not to be borne, and killed him in play, as the king of beasts kills an elephant in the water; his cheeks and snout marked with the mud of that blood, like a great elephant splitting the ground.

³³Dear one, they knew him then, dark as the tamala tree, lifting the earth on the tip of his white tusk with the play of an elephant, and those headed by Virinci stood before the Lord with folded hands and recited to him.