When the Sun reached the meridian, and the hour, therefore, came for saying the morning prayers, the powerful Lord, suddenly shaking off thrce balls of mud from his tusk, placed them upon the Earth, O Narada, having previously spread powerful Vishnu dedicated those balls of mud to his own self, according to the rites laid down in the eternal ordinance.
प्राप्ते चाह्निककाले तु मध्यदेशगते रवौ। दंष्ट्राविलग्नांस्त्रीन् पिण्डान् विधाय सहसा प्रभुः।१४॥ स्थापयामास वै पृथ्वयां कुशानास्तीर्य नारद। स तेष्वात्मानमुद्दिश्य पित्र्यं चक्रे यथाविधि॥