She said: 'O Yagnavalkya, that of which they say that it is above the heavens, beneath the earth, embracing heaven and earth, past, present, and future, tell me in what is it woven, like warp and woof?'

In plain words: Gargi asks her first question. People say there is something above the sky, below the earth, holding both, and spanning past, present and future. What is that thing woven into, like threads on a loom?