Yudhishthira said: O exalted one, narrate in detail how Vishnu, the lord of the celestials, raised up the earth sunk down one hundred yojanas. How was also that support of all created things, the greatly blessed Earth, who dispenses blessings and produces all sorts of course, made stable? By whom she was forced to sink one hundred yojanas and under what circumstances was this greatest exploit of the Supreme Being exhibited? O foremost of Brahmanas, I desire to hear all this in detail as it happened. You know all about it.