Souti said: -
1. The Nagas, after a consultation, came to the conclusion that they should obey their mother s command, for if her wish was not gratified, she, abandoning her love towards them, would burn them all.
2. If she was gratified, she might free them from curse. They said: “We shall undoubtedly make the horse’s hair black.”
3. It is said that they then went and became hairs on the tail of the horse (Uchaisrava). In the meantime the two co-wives laid the wager.
4. And having laid the wager, O best of Brahmanas, the two sisters proceeded in great delight to the other side of the great ocean.
5. Kadru and Vinata, the daughters of Daksha, saw on their way the ocean, incapable of being easily disturbed,
6. (But) greatly agitated all on a sudden by the wind. (It was) terribly roaring, full of Timingils and Makaras.
7. And thousand other creatures of various forms; it was frightful for the presence of horrible monsters; it was inaccessible, fearful and terrible,
8. The mine of all gems, the home of Varuna, the beautiful habitation of the Nagas, the Lord of rivers,
9. The abode of subterranean fire, the home of the Asuras and many fearful creatures, the reservoir of waters.
10. It was holy, the great receptacle of the Ambrosia of the celestials, immeasurable and inconceivable, full of holy waters.
11. Filled with many thousands of rivers, and thus disturbed, dancing in its waves.
12. Such was the ocean full of liquid waves, (it was) vast as the sky, deep, lighted with the flames of subterranean fire, roaring; —they (the sisters) passed quickly over it.
Thus ends the twenty-second chapter Sauparna, in the Adi Parva.