Listen now, O best of kings, to me as I recount to you, how the Destruction of all things is encompassed. A first, the element of Earth becomes merged in Water and nothing then is seen except one vast expanse of Water on all sides.
भूतप्रलयमत्यन्तं शृणुष्व नृपसत्तम॥ धरण्यामथ लीनायामप्सु चैकार्णवे पुरा।