Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 7
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- 7.27 — 2 parts
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Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Once again, when all was one terrible ocean, and the stationary and moving creation had vanished, / when the world was inundated with water, devoid of light, born of darkness,
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Brahmā alone was wandering there in that great ocean engulfed in darkness / for a thousand divine years, luminous like a firefly.
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Lying over a thousand yojanas, immeasurable, unsurpassed, / resembling twelve suns, with a thousand feet and eyes,
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asleep in the terrible ocean, [Brahmā] saw [a being] in the form of a tortoise. / Seeing him, Brahmā was overcome with astonishment and gently awakened him.
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with auspicious praises born of the Vedas and Vedāṅgas: / 'O lord of speech, awake, O great being, obeisance unto you!
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The entire universe resides in your belly, O supreme lord; / release that, O being of great power, which was previously withdrawn by you.
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The night of Brahmā has passed, the day follows; / behold, O lord of all worlds, so that the universe may come into being.'
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Hearing his speech, that supreme lord arose, / vomiting forth the three worlds swallowed at the dissolution of the kalpa then.
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The gods, Dānavas, Gandharvas, along with Yakṣas, Uragas, and Rākṣasas, / along with the moon, sun, and planets, all came forth from his body.
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Then, having divided that entire single ocean, the Supreme Lord / [beheld] the earth with its vast expanse of stones and waters, enhanced by rivers and lakes;
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the god beheld the earth, with trees, medicinal plants, and pools, / Himavat, the best of mountains, the excellent Śveta mountain,
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the great Śṛṅgavat mountain, and whatever other principal mountain ranges there were, / Jambudvīpa, Kuśadvīpa, Krauñcadvīpa, along with Gomedadvīpa and Śālmaladvīpa,
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and the continents up to Puṣkaradvīpa, and the seven great oceans, / and the great mountain Lokāloka—everything standing before him.
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Endowed with the fourfold nature, the stationary and moving world, / emerging at the end of the yuga, that Maheśvara beheld.
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The lord saw the earth with scattered networks of stones, / the goddess resting upon the back of the tortoise, situated in the great ocean.
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On that summit of a shattered mountain, where rivers and lakes had disappeared, / where waters were torn by varied waves, and churned by whirlpools and upsurges,
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resplendent with diverse medicinal herbs, with stone slabs covered in various lotuses, / resounded by diverse birds, crowded with fish and tortoises,
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the Lord of gods saw a river consisting of divine illusion, resembling a towering cloud, / a body of water beyond compare.
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In its midst [he saw her], dark as a raincloud, with swelling thighs, hips, and breasts, / adorned with incomparable, divine garments and various ornaments,
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resonant with the tinkling sound of anklets, decorated with necklaces and armlets— / goddess Narmadā herself, in the form of a woman,
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adorned with her own wondrous ornaments made of mystic power; / with unmanifest limbs, that fortunate Narmadā he beheld,
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a maiden with half-raised arms, with eyes long as lotus petals, / praising the God of gods as she emerged from the water.
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My heart filled with wonder upon seeing that auspicious lady, / I bathed in her auspicious waters, and then prepared to praise her.
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Rejoicing, I worshipped her with mantras originating from the limbs of the Veda. / And whatever was created of old, O King, moving and unmoving, I could see:
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together with gods, asuras, gandharvas, along with snakes and great serpents. / I see that this highly fortunate lady did not perish of old.
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By the grace of Mahādeva, born from his body, / she has been seen by me again and again, and has been described to you, O best of kings.
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Those best of twice-born who study this manifestation relating to the Tortoise, / and those wise men who hear it, they too are freed from sins.
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|| Thus ends the seventh chapter, titled "The Origin in the Tortoise Kalpa," in the Narmadāmāhātmya of the Revākhaṇḍa, within the Avantyakhaṇḍa, the fifth part of the glorious Skandapurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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RKV Chapter 8
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