सोऽशयिष्टाब्धिसलिले आण्डकोशो निरात्मक: । साग्रं वै वर्षसाहस्रमन्ववात्सीत्तमीश्वर: ॥ १५ ॥
so ’sayistabdhi-salile andakoso niratmakah sagram vai varsa-sahasram anvavatsit tam isvarah
- sah
- it
- asayista
- lay
- abdhi-salile
- on the waters of the Causal Ocean
- anda-kosah
- egg
- niratmakah
- in an unconscious state
- sagram
- a little more than
- vai
- in fact
- varsa-sahasram
- a thousand years
- anvavatsit
- became situated
- tam
- in the egg
- isvarah
- the Lord.
For over one thousand years the shiny egg lay on the waters of the Causal Ocean in the lifeless state. Then the Lord entered it as Garbhodakasayi Visnu.