Verse 27

²⁷Just then the Bhargava was taken in by the child's breath and went inside its body like a gnat; and there he saw all of this laid out entire, as it had been before, and was bewildered and greatly astonished. ²⁸Sky, heaven and earth, the host of stars, mountains, oceans, islands with their lands, the quarters, gods and antigods, forests, countries, rivers, cities and mines, hamlets and cattle stations, and the callings of the classes and the stages of life; ²⁹the great elements, and then what is made of them; and time, with its fashioning of the many ages and aeons; and whatever else is the cause of what people do. He saw the whole of it, lit up as though it were real.

³⁰The Himalaya, and that river the Puspavaha, and his own hermitage, and there he saw the sages. Looking on the whole of it, he was thrown out again by the child's breath and fell into the ocean of dissolution. ³¹In it, on the hump of the earth, the banyan that had grown there, and the child lying in the cup of its leaf; and the child looked at him from the corner of its eye, with a smile that was the nectar of its love.