Having created the Earth that powerful Lord of all things, that great one, that foremost of all beings, lay on the surface of the waters.
स सृष्ट्वा पृथिवीं चैव सर्वभूतेश्वरः प्रभुः। अप्स्वेव भवनं चक्रे महात्मा पुरुषोत्तमः॥