Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3833

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2) Incarnation. Instantly the young one of a Boar jumped out of the nose of Brahmā through his breath. That divine figure of Boar stood in the air and began to grow. Within a few moments, it became a colossal Being. It grew up as big as an elephant. Soon it became as large as a mountain. Seeing this, Brahmā and the others stood in amazement. The Boar made a grunt in a loud roaring sound. The people of Janaloka, Satyaloka etc. understood that it was the sound of Mahāviṣṇu. They raised glory and praise to Bhagavān, who heard all these praises, but without condescending to tell anything, looked at all of them with grace and love, and with a mighty force jumped into the sea. It was immensely troubled by the manes of God Almighty. Varuṇa prayed to him to save him from them. Bhagavān folded his mane and went down to the deep water and made a search for the earth. The Boar walked smelling and snorting and found out the earth. He slowly lifted it on his tusks and started from there. On the way, the fierce and wicked Hiraṇyākṣa hindered him. Bhagavān Viṣṇu used his club Nandaka and killed Hiraṇyākṣa. It was besmeared with his blood; Mahāviṣṇu came up to the surface of water with the earth. He set the earth firm over the water. Thus Brahmā gave Manu a place in the earth which floated on the water like a lotus-leaf, and empowered him to perform creation.