Sūta said: Then, when the residents of the three worlds had become proper(?) (or equipped) with people, when the worlds had been completely burned down by the seven suns, when the earth had been flooded with rain, when the seas had become desolate, all the waters of the oceans, clouds and the earth move ahead scattered (like arrows). They have the name Salīla. They followed (one after the other). That flood of water gathered together in abundance. When that vast sheet of water covered the earth, it became known by the name Arṇava (sea). This water is called Ambhas because it shone and spread. The water reached everywhere. The root ^Bhā has the sense of Vyāpti (spreading) and Dīpti (shining).