For crcating this universe which consists of the five primal elements, he begins this work, and causcs it to go on in the fivefold form of animate existence containing celestial and Asuras and human beings and beasts and birds. He it is who then creates the Earth and the Wind, the Sky, Light, and also Water, O son of Pritha.
स पञ्चधा पञ्चजनोपपन्न संचोदयन् विश्वमिदं सिसृक्षुः। ततश्चकारावनिमारुतौ च खं ज्योतिरम्भश्च तथैव पार्थ॥