स इत्थमुद्वीक्ष्य तदब्जनाल- नाडीभिरन्तर्जलमाविवेश । नार्वाग्गतस्तत्खरनालनाल- नाभिं विचिन्वंस्तदविन्दताज: ॥ १९ ॥
sa ittham udviksya tad-abja-nala- nadibhir antar-jalam avivesa narvag-gatas tat-khara-nala-nala- nabhim vicinvams tad avindatajah
- sah
- he (Brahma)
- ittham
- in this way
- udviksya
- contemplating
- tat
- that
- abja
- lotus
- nala
- stem
- nadibhih
- by the pipe
- antah-jalam
- within the water
- avivesa
- entered into
- na
- not
- arvak-gatah
- in spite of going inside
- tat-khara-nala
- the stem of the lotus
- nala
- pipe
- nabhim
- of the navel
- vicinvan
- thinking much of it
- tat
- that
- avindata
- understood
- ajah
- the self-born.
Lord Brahma, thus contemplating, entered the water through the channel of the stem of the lotus. But in spite of entering the stem and going nearer to the navel of Visnu, he could not trace out the root.