Lokakalpanā / The Ordering of the Worlds
Cosmogony and Earth’s Retrieval
उपगम्या जुहावैता मद्यश्चाद्यसमन्यसत् / मामुद्राश्च समुद्रेषु नादेयाश्च नदीषु च / पृथक् तास्तु समीकृत्य पृथिव्यां सो ऽचिनोद्गिरीन्
upagamyā juhāvaitā madyaścādyasamanyasat / māmudrāśca samudreṣu nādeyāśca nadīṣu ca / pṛthak tāstu samīkṛtya pṛthivyāṃ so 'cinodgirīn
Drawing near, they offered the āhutis and set in place the madya and the food as well. The ‘mā-mudrās’ were placed in the oceans and the ‘nā-deyās’ in the rivers; then, gathering them separately and setting them in order, he heaped up mountains upon the earth.