One full thousand of such cycles would constitute a day of Brahma. O foremost of men, when this universe is withdrawn and taken back within its (original) home, (namely) Brahma himself, that disappearance of all things is called by the learned "the universal dissolution." O best of the Bharata race, at the end of the last mentioned one thousand years, men become addicted to falsehood. O son of Pritha, they then perform sacrifices and gifts by representatives.
एतत् सहरपर्यन्तमहो ब्राह्ममुदाहृतम्। विश्वं हि ब्रह्मभवने सर्वतः परिवर्तते॥ लोकानां मनुजव्याघ्र प्रलयं तं विदुर्बुधाः। अल्पावशिष्टे तु तदा युगान्ते भरतर्षभ॥ सहगन्ते नराः सर्वे प्रायशोऽनृतवादिनः। यज्ञप्रतिनिधिः पार्थ दानप्रतिनिधिस्तथा॥