Imagine watching the earth disappear beneath endless water, with no land, people or familiar world left anywhere. This is the extraordinary Markandeya Pralaya story described in the Mahabharata’s Vana Parva.
During his exile, Yudhishthira asked the immortal sage Markandeya about the great dissolution of the universe. Markandeya then described what he had personally experienced. After terrifying cosmic events, he wandered alone through the endless waters of Pralaya.
