वर्षपूगसहस्रान्ते तदण्डमुदकेशयम् । कालकर्मस्वभावस्थो जीवोऽजीवमजीवयत् ॥ ३४ ॥
varsa-puga-sahasrante tad andam udake sayam kala-karma-svabhava-stho jivo ’jivam ajivayat
- varsa-puga
- many years
- sahasra-ante
- of thousands of years
- tat
- that
- andam
- the universal globe
- udake
- in the causal water
- sayam
- being drowned
- kala
- eternal time
- karma
- action
- svabhava-sthah
- according to the modes of nature
- jivah
- the Lord of the living beings
- ajivam
- nonanimated
- ajivayat
- caused to be animated.
Thus all the universes remained thousands of eons within the water (the Causal Ocean), and the Lord of living beings, entering in each of them, caused them to be fully animated.