इत्यभिध्यायतो नासाविवरात्सहसानघ । वराहतोको निरगादङ्गुष्ठपरिमाणक: ॥ १८ ॥
ity abhidhyayato nasa- vivarat sahasanagha varaha-toko niragad angustha-parimanakah
- iti
- thus
- abhidhyayatah
- while thinking
- nasa-vivarat
- from the nostrils
- sahasa
- all of a sudden
- anagha
- O sinless one
- varaha-tokah
- a minute form of Varaha (a boar)
- niragat
- came out
- angustha
- the upper portion of the thumb
- parimanakah
- of the measurement.
O sinless Vidura, all of a sudden, while Brahma was engaged in thinking, a small form of a boar came out of his nostril. The measurement of the creature was not more than the upper portion of a thumb.