Lokakalpanā / The Ordering of the Worlds
Cosmogony and Earth’s Retrieval
ओङ्काराषृतनुं त्वन्यां कल्पादिषु यथा पुरा / ततो महात्मा मनसा दिव्यरूपम चिन्तयत्
oṅkārāṣṛtanuṃ tvanyāṃ kalpādiṣu yathā purā / tato mahātmā manasā divyarūpama cintayat
As in former times at the beginnings of the kalpas he had assumed another body founded upon Oṁkāra, so then the great-souled one contemplated within his mind a divine form.