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ŚB 10.80.37

Devanagari

सूर्यश्चास्तं गतस्तावत् तमसा चावृता दिश: ।
निम्नं कूलं जलमयं न प्राज्ञायत किञ्चन ॥ ३७ ॥

Text

sūryaś cāstaṁ gatas tāvat
tamasā cāvṛtā diśaḥ
nimnaṁ kūlaṁ jala-mayaṁ
na prājñāyata kiñcana

Synonyms

sūryaḥ — the sun; ca — and; astam gataḥ — having set; tāvat — thereupon; tamasā — by darkness; ca — and; āvṛtāḥ — covered; diśaḥ — all the directions; nimnam — low; kūlam — high land; jala-mayam — with water all around; na prājñāyata — could not be recognized; kiñcana — any.

Translation

Then, as the sun set, the forest was covered by darkness in every direction, and with all the flooding we could not distinguish high land from low.