Lokakalpanā / The Ordering of the Worlds
Cosmogony and Earth’s Retrieval
इति श्रीब्रह्माण्डे महापुराणे वायुप्रोक्ते पूर्वभागे प्रथमे प्रक्रियापदे लोककल्पनं नाम चतुर्थो ऽध्यायः श्रीसूत उवाच आपो ऽग्रे सर्वगा आसन्नेनसिमन्पृथिवीतले / शान्तवातैः प्रलीने ऽस्मिन्न प्राज्ञायत किञ्चन
iti śrībrahmāṇḍe mahāpurāṇe vāyuprokte pūrvabhāge prathame prakriyāpade lokakalpanaṃ nāma caturtho 'dhyāyaḥ śrīsūta uvāca āpo 'gre sarvagā āsannenasimanpṛthivītale / śāntavātaiḥ pralīne 'sminna prājñāyata kiñcana
Thus, in the Śrī Brahmāṇḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the former section spoken by Vāyu, within the first Prakriyāpada, is the fourth chapter called “Lokakalpana” (the fashioning of the worlds). Śrī Sūta said: In the beginning, the waters pervaded all; upon the face of the earth there was no boundary. When all this had dissolved into tranquil winds, nothing whatsoever could be discerned.