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or 'place of motion he thence is named Narayana or moving on the 
waters. 
Verse 11. From that which is the first cause, not the object of sense, 
existing every where in substance , not existing to our perception , without 
beginning or end, was produced the divine male, famed in all worlds under 
the appellation of Brahma. 
Verse 13. And from it’s (egg’s) two divisions he framed the heaven 
above and the earth beneath , in the midst he placed the subtle ether, the 
eight regions, and the permanent receptacle of waters. 
Verse 32. Having divided his own substance, the mighty power, 
became half male, half female, or nature active and passive, and from that 
female he produced Viraj. 
Verse 33. Know me, O most excellent of Brahmans to be that person, 
whom the male power Viraj, having performed austere devotion, produced 
by himself ; Me the secondary framer of all this visible world. 
Verse 3d. It was I, who, desirous of giving birth to a race of men, 
performed very difficult religious duties, and first produced ten Lords of 
created beings, eminent in holiness. 
Verse 35. Marichi, Atri, Angiras, Pulastya, Pulaha, Cratu, Prachetas 
or Daksha, Vasishtha, Bhrigu, and Narada. 
Verse 36. They, abundant in glory, produced seven other Menus, 
together with deities, and the mansions of deities, and Maharshis or great 
Sages unlimited in power. 
Verse 51. He, whose powers are incomprehensible, having thus created 
both me and this universe, was again absorbed in the supreme Spirit, chang¬ 
ing the time of energy for the time of repose. 
Verse 52. When that power awakes (for, though slumber be not 
predicable of the sole eternal Mind, infinitely wise, and infinitely benevolent, 
yet it is predicated of Brahma figuratively, as a general property of life) 
then has this world its full expansion ; but when he slumbers with a tranquil 
spirit, then the whole system fades away. 
Verse 53. For, while he reposes as it were, in calm sleep, embodied 
spirits, endued with principles of action, depart from their several acts, and 
the mind itself becomes inert. 
Verse 62. Swarochisha, Auttami, Tamasa, Raivata likewise and 
Chacshusha beaming with glory, and Vaivaswata, child of the sun.” 
This account of the creation and the creative powers employed in the 
process, very nearly corresponds with the description of the creation given 
in the opening chapter of the book of Genesis, with the slight reversion of 
the creation of water before that of heaven and earth, which in the Mosaic 
account is described as increate, as chaos itself. “ The Spirit of God 
moved on the waters” agrees almost verbatim with the words of the Bible 
