ब्रह्मोवाच यत्रोद्यत: क्षितितलोद्धरणाय बिभ्रत् क्रौडीं तनुं सकलयज्ञमयीमनन्त: । अन्तर्महार्णव उपागतमादिदैत्यं तं दंष्ट्रयाद्रिमिव वज्रधरो ददार ॥ १ ॥
brahmovaca yatrodyatah ksiti-taloddharanaya bibhrat kraudim tanum sakala-yajna-mayim anantah antar-maharnava upagatam adi-daityam tam damstrayadrim iva vajra-dharo dadara
- brahma uvaca
- Lord Brahma said
- yatra
- at that time (when)
- udyatah
- attempted
- ksiti-tala
- the planet earth
- uddharanaya
- for the matter of lifting
- bibhrat
- assumed
- kraudim
- pastimes
- tanum
- form
- sakala
- total
- yajna-mayim
- all-inclusive sacrifices
- anantah
- the Unlimited
- antar
- within the universe
- maha-arnave
- the great Garbha Ocean
- upagatam
- having arrived at
- adi
- the first
- daityam
- demon
- tam
- him
- damstraya
- by the tusk
- adrim
- the flying mountains
- iva
- like
- vajra-dharah
- the controller of the thunderbolts
- dadara
- pierced
Lord Brahma said: When the unlimitedly powerful Lord assumed the form of a boar as a pastime, just to lift the plane earth, which was drowned in the great ocean of the universe called the Garbhodaka, the first demon (Hiranyaksa) appeared, and the Lord pierced him with His tusk.