Aṇḍam — beyond Āloka. Here are the seven conti- nents and earth surrounded by a sea of clouds.1 The golden egglike aṇḍa emerges from Īśvara's seed and attains yoni(prakṛti), the latter being the embodiment of Nārāyaṇa, in a period of a thousand years. It became heaven and earth, ākāśa being in the middle.2 The outside is covered with waters ten times the aṇḍa — covered by tejas, — successively covered by vāyu, by ākāśa, this by Bhūtādi; that by mahat and that in turn by avyakta each ten times the mass of its predecessor. These are the seven Prakṛtis. Avyakta is kṣetra and Brahmā ksetrajña.3 Brahmā born of.4 Like the moon in Kumbha rāśi at the commencement of the Śukla pakṣa; there are several aṇḍams, each covered by seven characteristics of Prakṛti.5[Footnote] 1) Br. I. 1. 43f; II. 19. 154-5, 160; 21. 24; III. 59. 27; IV. 2. 230-1. [Footnote] 2) M. 2. 29-32; 247. 43; 248. 1. [Footnote] 3) Vā. 1. 50-52; 4. 82-9; 101. 227; Br. I. 3. 26. [Footnote] 4) Vā. 9. 122. [Footnote] 5) Vā. 49. 147-51.