Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3802

c9.3802

As soon as the asura-King complied with his request, Vāmana began to grow like the moon. He assumed the shape of Trivikrama to measure each of the three worlds with a foot. In two steps he measured all the worlds. Vāmana whose body was bigger than Mahāmeru became angry when he did not see place to measure the third step, and fell on Dhundhu. By this heavy fall there appeared a great cavity thirty thousand yojanas deep. Bhagavān Viṣṇu took the asura Dhundhu and threw him into that deep pit with a mighty force, and by a shower of dust he filled the cavity.