The short Viṣṇusmṛti of the eighteen-smṛti collections 24

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lokatrayahitārthāya svokārāya no hariḥ
yataścotpadyate viśvaṃ yasminneva pralipyate

for the sake of the benefit of the three worlds, […] Hari [manifests]. / From whom the universe arises, and in whom alone it dissolves,