Lokakalpanā / The Ordering of the Worlds
Cosmogony and Earth’s Retrieval
ब्रह्म तु सलिले तस्मिन्नवाग् भूत्वा तदा चरन् / निशायामिव खद्योतः प्रापृट्काले ततस्ततः
brahma tu salile tasminnavāg bhūtvā tadā caran / niśāyāmiva khadyotaḥ prāpṛṭkāle tatastataḥ
Then Brahmā, turned downward, moved within those waters; like a firefly in the night flashing here and there, so in the time of pralaya he wandered from place to place.