Devanagari
अयुतायुतवर्षाणां सहस्राणि शतानि च ।
व्यतीयुर्भ्रमतस्तस्मिन् विष्णुमायावृतात्मन: ॥ १९ ॥
Verse text
ayutāyuta-varṣāṇāṁ
sahasrāṇi śatāni ca
vyatīyur bhramatas tasmin
viṣṇu-māyāvṛtātmanaḥ
Synonyms
ayuta
—
tens of thousands
;
ayuta
—
by tens of thousands
;
varṣāṇām
—
of years
;
sahasrāṇi
—
thousands
;
śatāni
—
hundreds
;
ca
—
and
;
vyatīyuḥ
—
passed by
;
bhramataḥ
—
as he wandered
;
tasmin
—
in that
;
viṣṇu
—
māyā — by the illusory energy of Lord Viṣṇu
;
āvṛta
—
covered
;
ātmanaḥ
—
his mind .
Translation
Countless millions of years passed as Mārkaṇḍeya wandered about in that deluge, his mind bewildered by the illusory energy of Lord Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Countless millions of years passed as Mārkaṇḍeya wandered about in that deluge, his mind bewildered by the illusory energy of Viṣṇu.