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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 9, Ch. 1]
śrī-śukaḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; śrūyatām—just hear from me; mānavaḥ vaṁśaḥ—the dynasty of Manu; prācuryeṇa—as expansive as possible; parantapa—O King, who can subdue your enemies; na—not; śakyate—one is able; vistarataḥ—very broadly; vaktum—to speak; varṣa-śataiḥ api—even if he does so for hundreds of years.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued: O King, subduer of your enemies, now hear from me in great detail about the dynasty of Manu. I shall explain as much as possible, although one could not say everything about it, even in hundreds of years.
TEXT 8
परावरेषां भूतानामात्मा यः पुरुषः परः । स एवासीदिदं विश्वं कल्पान्तेऽन्यन्न किञ्चन ॥ ८ ॥
parāvareṣām bhūtānām ātmā yaḥ puruṣaḥ paraḥ sa evāsīd idam viśvam kalpānte 'nyan na kiñcana
para-avareṣām —of all living entities, in higher or lower statuses of life;  bhūtānām —of those who have taken material bodies (the conditioned souls);  ātmā —the Supersoul;  yaḥ —one who is;  puruṣaḥ —the Supreme Person;  paraḥ —transcendental;  saḥ —He;  eva —indeed;  āsīt —was existing;  idam —this;  viśvam —universe;  kalpa-ante —at the end of the millennium;  anyat —anything else;  na —not;  kiñcana —anything whatsoever.
TRANSLATION
The transcendental Supreme Person, the Supersoul of all living entities, who are in different statuses of life, high and low, existed at the end of the millennium, when neither this manifested cosmos nor anything else but Him existed.