The waters are called nárá, because they were the production of NARA, or the spirit of GOD; and, since they were his first ayana, or place of motion, he thence is named NÁRÁYANA, or moving on the waters.
Menu, The Laws of Menu, son of Brahmá, ch. 1, vs. 10.
(Jones, William, Sir, Institutes of Hindu Law, Calcutta: printed by order of the government; London: reprinted, for J. Sewell ...; and J. Debrett, 1796, p. 2.)
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