(77) I saw seven rivers on the earth larger than all the rivers: one of them coming from the west pours its waters into the Great Sea.

(15) “ Again, he can enclose the waters of the four great oceans within a single pore of the skin and there is no disturbance among the beings of the water whether fishes or turtles or great turtles or crocodiles, the nature of the great oceans remaining as it was ; even those beings such as goblins and Asuras [who live therein] recognise not and know not that they are enclosed and never disturb the being in whom they are enclosed.

(1) 'These rivers, my son, run, the eastern (like the Gangâ) toward the east, the western (like the Sindhu) toward the west. They go from sea to sea (i. e. the clouds lift up the water from the sea to the sky, and send it back as rain to the sea). They become indeed sea. And as those rivers, when they are in the sea, do not know, I am this or that river,

(77) And the remaining four come forth on the side of the north to their own sea, 〈two of them〉 to the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea and discharge themselves there [and some say: into the desert].