Brahma held it first for a thousand years and thereafter Prajapati held it for five hundred and three years. Afterwards Shakra did it for five and eighty years. Soma did it for five hundred years and Varuna for a hundred.
एतद् वर्षसहस्रं तु ब्रह्मा पूर्वमधारयत्। ततोऽनन्तरमेवाथ प्रजापतिरधारयत्॥ त्रीणि पञ्चशतं चैव शक्रोऽशीति च पञ्च च। सोमः पञ्चशतं राजा तथैव वरुणः शतम्।