The Geography of the Puranas c13.s4.4

c13.s4.4

In the beginning, the Purāṇas quoting from the Vedas, assert ‘there was then neither day nor night, nor sky nor earth, nor darkness nor light, nor any other thing, save only one, unapprehensible by intellect, or that which is Brahmā and Puruṣa (Spirit) and Pradhāna (Matter). The two forms which are other than the essence of unmodified Viṣṇu are Pradhāna and Puruṣa; and his other form by which those two are connected or separated, is called Kāla (time). Where discrete substance is aggregated in crude matter, as in a foregone dissolution, that dissolution is termed elemental (Prakṛta)….’ (Viṣṇu P., Wilson, tr., Bk II, p. 12).