A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
(‘moving on waters’) originally the name for Prajāpati, 
or Brahma, i.e. for the demiurge god-creator (cf.
the image of the spirit of God hovering above the waters in Genesis). Later it became one of the names of 
, particularly in his yoganidrā state between two manifestations when he is reclining on the cosmic snake 
and floating on the cosmic waters (symbolizing the latent creative forces at rest) between two world manifestations (in the state of pralāya). Some 
texts equate him with the 
ātman.
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