एतदण्डं विशेषाख्यं क्रमवृद्धैर्दशोत्तरै: । तोयादिभि: परिवृतं प्रधानेनावृतैर्बहि: । यत्र लोकवितानोऽयं रूपं भगवतो हरे: ॥ ५२ ॥
etad andam visesakhyam krama-vrddhair dasottaraih toyadibhih parivrtam pradhanenavrtair bahih yatra loka-vitano ’yam rupam bhagavato hareh
- etat
- this
- andam
- egg
- visesa-akhyam
- called visesa
- krama
- one after another
- vrddhaih
- increased
- dasa
- ten times
- uttaraih
- greater
- toya-adibhih
- by water and so on
- parivrtam
- enveloped
- pradhanena
- by pradhana
- avrtaih
- covered
- bahih
- on the outside
- yatra
- where
- loka-vitanah
- the extension of the planetary systems
- ayam
- this
- rupam
- form
- bhagavatah
- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- hareh
- of Lord Hari
This universal egg, or the universe in the shape of an egg, is called the manifestation of material energy. Its layers of water, air, fire, sky, ego and mahat-tattva increase in thickness one after another. Each layer is ten times bigger than the previous one, and the final outside layer is covered by pradhana. Within this egg is the universal form of Lord Hari, of whose body the fourteen planeary systems are parts.