अयुतायुतवर्षाणां सहस्राणि शतानि च । व्यतीयुर्भ्रमतस्तस्मिन् विष्णुमायावृतात्मन: ॥ १९ ॥
ayutāyuta-varṣāṇāṁ sahasrāṇi śatāni ca vyatīyur bhramatas tasmin viṣṇu-māyāvṛtātmanaḥ
- ayuta
- tens of thousands
- ayuta
- by tens of thousands
- varṣāṇām
- of years
- sahasrāṇi
- thousands
- śatāni
- hundreds
- ca
- and
- vyatīyuḥ
- passed by
- bhramataḥ
- as he wandered
- tasmin
- in that
- viṣṇu-māyā
- by the illusory energy of Lord Viṣṇu
- āvṛta
- covered
- ātmanaḥ
- his mind
Countless millions of years passed as Mārkaṇḍeya wandered about in that deluge, his mind bewildered by the illusory energy of Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.