The Geography of the Puranas c13.s4.8

c13.s4.8

In the egg, O Brahmā, were the continents and seas and mountains, the planets and divisions of the Universe, the gods, the demons and mankind. And this egg was externally invested by seven natural envelopes, i.e. water, air, fire, ether and Ahaṃkāra, the origin of elements, each tenfold the extent of that which is invested; next came the principle of intelligence; and finally, He who was surrounded by the indiscrete Principle; resembling thus the coconut, filled interiorly with pulp and exteriorly covered by husk and rind (Viṣṇu P., II, Wilson, tr., p. 18-19).