Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.2590

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This Brahmāṇḍa, like the seed of the Kapittha tree (Vitar—the wood-apple), is covered under, above and all around by aṇḍakaṭāha (egg-shell). The aṇḍa (egg) is covered by water ten times the egg in volume. This water-shell is covered by a shell of fire. Around the shell of fire there is the shell of air and the air-shell is covered with ether. Around the shell of ether there is the shell of Egoism of darkness. Over the shell of Egoism there is the shell of glory and the shell of glory is covered by Prakṛti, the Divine Nature. It is immeasurable. Prakṛti contains numberless Brahmāṇḍas. As oil exists in sesame, God pervades the whole universe. This is the connection between Prakṛti and Puruṣa. (The Nature and the Supreme Spirit).