O foremost of men, there was water everywhere; the water covered the heaven and the sky. O best of the Bharata race, when the world was thus flooded,
सर्वमाम्भसमेवासीत् खं द्योश्च नरपुङ्गव। एवंभूते तदा लोके संकुले भरतर्षभ॥