CHAPTER XLVII. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLDS AND THEIR DEMIURGI.
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Valmiki and Mitra, Viharilala
80. Again doth time form the plate of the earth like a potter, and turn his wheel incessantly, to bring on the revolutions of his creations in successive kalpas.
81. Again doth the veteran time, who is skilled in the work of renovation, wither away the freshness of creation, as the autumnal winds blast the foliage of a forest, in order to produce them anew.
82. Again the dozen of zodiacal suns, rising at once and burning the creation, leaves the dead bodies all around, like the white bones lying scattered in a country.
83. Again the pushkara and ávartaka clouds, poured down their rain water, deluging the tops of the boundary mountains, and filling the face of the earth with foaming froth, swimming on the surface of one sheet of water.
84. And after the waters had subsided and the winds had ceased to blow; the world appeared as a vast vacuum void of all beings.
85. Again we see living beings filling the earth, and feeding for some years upon the moisture of its verdure, leaving their decayed bodies, and being mixed up with their souls in the universal spirit.
86. Again the Divine Mind stretches out other creations at other times, and these are drawn like pictures of fairylands (airy castles) in the canvas of vacuum.
87. Again the creation appears to view, and again it is submerged in the water of deluvion, both of which follow one another like the axles of a wheel.
88. Now consider, O Ráma! if there is any stability of any thing in this revolutionary world, beside its being a maze of continuous delusion.
89. The revolution of the world resembles the hallucination of Dásúra’s mind; it is a phantasia without any solidity in it.
90. The world appearing so extensive and thickly peopled, is but a fancied unreality like the erroneous appearance of two moons in the sky. It is made of unreality though appearing as real, and is not worth reliance by our ignorance of its nature.