Sūta said: In the vast sheet of water, the waters are not quick in motion (śīghrāḥ) therefore, they are called Nāras. At the end of the thousand Yugas, when the day of Brahmā had come to a close, when the night of so much (= the same) duration had been present within the watery expanse, when the surface of the earth had become lost within that water, when all fires were extinguished, when the wind had become totally calm and motionless, when there had been darkness all round without any light, this (universe) had been presided over by this person. He is Brahmā, the lord. He wished again to divide this world. In that vast sheet of water where the mobile and the immobile beings have perished, Brahmā becomes a person with thousand (i.e. innumerable) eyes, thousand feet, thousand heads one who has conquered all the sense-organs and one with golden complexion.