3. Brahmá who is without desire, beheld the imaginary mundane-egg appearing about him, in its aerial form (of a chimera).
4. Then Brahmá divided this imaginary world of his in twain. It was of a luminous form, from which he came out as a luminary, like a bird matured in its egg. (This is hence called Brahmánda or egg of Brahmá).
5. He beheld one half (or the upper hemisphere) of this egg, rising high in the upper sky; and saw the other half to constitute the lower world, and both of which he considered as parts of himself.
6. The upper part of Brahmá’s egg, is termed as the head of Virát; the lower part is styled his footstool, and the midway region is called his waist.
7. The midmost part of the two far separated portions, is of immense extent, and appearing as a blue and hollow vault all around us.
8. The heaven is the upper roof of this hollow, likening to the palate of the open mouth, and the stars which are studded in it, resemble the spots of blood in it. The breath of the mouth is as vital air, which supports all mortals and the immortal Gods.
9. The ghosts, demons and ogres, are as worms in his body; and the cavities of spheres of the different worlds, are as the veins and arteries in his body.
10. The nether worlds below us, are the footstools of Virát; and the cavities under his knees, are as the pits of infernal regions.
11. The great basin of water in the midst of the earth, and surrounding the islands in the midst of them; is as the navel and its pit in the centre of the body of Virát.
12. The rivers with the purling waters in them, resemble the arteries of Virát with the purple blood running in them; and the Jam-bu-dvípa is as his lotiform heart, with the mount Meru as its pericarp.