Lokakalpanā / The Ordering of the Worlds
Cosmogony and Earth’s Retrieval
यस्मात्तेषां कृता बुद्धिर् दुःखानि करणानि च / तस्माच्च संवृतात्मानो नगा मुख्याः प्रकीर्तिताः
yasmātteṣāṃ kṛtā buddhir duḥkhāni karaṇāni ca / tasmācca saṃvṛtātmāno nagā mukhyāḥ prakīrtitāḥ
For them were fashioned buddhi, sufferings, and the instruments of sense; therefore they are proclaimed as ‘Nagas’, their selves enclosed, and as the ‘Mukhya’, the foremost.