23. I saw them in my understanding, and not with my visual organs (which are both delusive and incapable of reaching so far); and beheld somewhere the first born Brahmá—the lord of creatures.
24. I then beheld his arrangement of the starry frame, and the spheres of the sun and moon; as also the rotations of days and nights, and of the seasons and years; and I saw likewise the surface of the earth, with its population here and there.
25. I saw some where the level land, and the great basins of the four oceans elsewhere; I saw some places quite unpeopled and unproductive, and others teeming with Sura and Asura races.
26. Somewhere I saw the assemblage of righteous men, with their manners and conduct as those of the pure golden age; and elsewhere I beheld the company of unrighteous people, following the practices and usages of the corrupt iron age.
27. I saw the forts and cities of the demons in certain places, with fierce and continuous warfares going on all along among them.
28. I saw vast mountainous tracts, without a pit or pool in them any where; and I beheld elsewhere the unfinished creation of the lotus-born Brahmá.
29. I saw some lands where men were free from death and decay; and others with moonless nights and bare headed Sivas in them. (The moon being the coronet of Siva’s head, it must be bare for want of the moon on it).
30. I saw the milky ocean unchurned, and filled with the dead bodies of gods; and the marine horse and elephant, the Kámadhenu cow, the physician Dhanvantari and the goddess Laxmí; together with the submarine poison and ambrosia, all lying hidden and buried therein.
31. I saw in one place the body of gods, assembled to baffle the attempts of the giants and the devices of their leader Sukra; and the great god Indra in another, entering into the womb of Deity—the mother of demons, and destroying the unborn brood therein.
32. It was on account of the unfading virtue (or unalterable course) of nature, that the world was brilliant as ever before; unless that somethings were placed out of their former order.