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# Matsyapurana 166.16

Matsyapurāṇa 166.16

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [166.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.166.16)

tena rodhena saṃchannā payasāṃ varṣato dharā  
ekārṇavajalībhūtā sarvasattvavivarjitā //

> Covered by that confinement of waters from the raining \[clouds\], the earth / turned into the waters of the primordial cosmic ocean, bereft of all beings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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