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Vishnupurana 6.4.9

Viṣṇupurāṇa (critical edition) 6.4.9

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Sanskrit

6.4.9

padmayoner dinaṃ yat tu caturyugasahasravat
ekārṇave kṛte loke tāvatī rātrir iṣyate //

When the universal spirit wakes, the world revives; when he closes his eyes, all things fall upon the bed of mystic slumber. In like manner as a thousand great ages constitute a day of Brahmá, so his night consists of the same period; during which the world is submerged by a vast ocean. Awaking at the end of his night, the unborn, Vishńu, in the character of Brahmá, creates the universe anew, in the manner formerly related to you.

Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition

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