Try then to dry up those lakes by taking from them, only once a day, as much water as may be taken up with the end of a single hair. The number of days that would be necessary to drying them up perfectly by this process forins the period that is required by the life of one creation from its beginning to the time of its destruction.
वाप्या जलं क्षिप्यति वालकोट्या त्वन्हा सकृच्चाप्यथ न द्वितीयम्। तासां क्षये विद्धि परं विसर्ग संहारमेकं च तथा प्रजानाम्॥