Verse 17

¹⁷Sometimes he was carried into a great whirlpool, sometimes beaten by the running waters, and somewhere he would be eaten by water creatures that were killing one another as well. ¹⁸Sometimes he came to grief, sometimes to delusion, sometimes to pain, to pleasure, to fear; and sometimes he came to death, harried besides by sickness and the rest. ¹⁹Hundreds and thousands of ten thousand times ten thousand years went by while he wandered there, his self covered over by Visnu's maya. ²⁰Once, wandering there, that twice-born man saw a young banyan on a hump of the earth, lovely with its fruit and its new leaves. ²¹And on its north-eastern branch he saw a child, lying in the cup of a leaf, swallowing the darkness with its light.