मैत्रेय उवाच
परमेष्ठी त्वपां मध्ये तथा सन्नामवेक्ष्य गाम् ।
कथमेनां समुन्नेष्य इति दध्यौ धिया चिरम् ॥ १६ ॥
paramesthi tv apam madhye
maitreyah uvaca-Sri Maitreya Muni said; paramesthi-Brahma; tu-also; apam-the water; madhye-within; tatha-thus; sannam-situated; aveksya-seeing; gam-the earth; katham-how; enam-this; samunnesye-I will lift; iti-thus; dadhyau-gave attention; dhiya-by intelligence; ciram-for a long time.
Sri Maitreya said: Thus, seeing the earth merged in the water,
Brahma gave his attention for a long time to how it could be lifted.
According to
Jiva Gosvami, the topics delineated here are of different millenniums. The present topics are of the
Sveta-
varaha millennium, and topics regarding the
Caksusa millennium will also be discussed in this chapter.