Yudhishthira said: O exalted one, narrate in detail how Vishnu, the lord of the celestials, raised up the earth sunk down one hundred yojanas. How was also that support of all created things, the greatly blessed Earth, who dispenses blessings and produces all sorts of course, made stable? By whom she was forced to sink one hundred yojanas and under what circumstances was this greatest exploit of the Supreme Being exhibited? O foremost of Brahmanas, I desire to hear all this in detail as it happened. You know all about it.
युधिष्ठिर उवाच भगवन् विस्तरेणेमां कथां कथय तत्त्वतः। कथं तेन सुरेशेन नष्टा वसुमती तदा॥ योजनानां शतं ब्रह्मन् पुनरुद्धरिता तदा। केन चैव प्रकारेण जगतोधरणीध्रुवा॥ शिवा देवी महाभागा सर्वसस्यप्ररोहिणी। कस्य चैव प्रभावाद्धि योजनानां शतं गता॥ केन तद् वीर्यसर्वस्वं दर्शितं परमात्मनः। एतत् सर्वं यथातत्त्वमिच्छामि द्विजसत्तम। श्रोतुं विस्तरशः सर्वं त्वं हि तस्य प्रतिश्रयः॥