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ŚB 11.3.11

Devanagari

संवर्तको मेघगणो वर्षति स्म शतं समा: ।
धाराभिर्हस्तिहस्ताभिर्लीयते सलिले विराट् ॥ ११ ॥

Text

saṁvartako megha-gaṇo
varṣati sma śataṁ samāḥ
dhārābhir hasti-hastābhir
līyate salile virāṭ

Synonyms

saṁvartakaḥ — of annihilation; megha-gaṇaḥ — hordes of clouds; varṣati — will rain; sma — indeed; śatam samāḥ — for one hundred years; dhārābhiḥ — with torrents; hasti-hastābhiḥ — (raindrops measuring the length of) elephant trunks; līyate — will merge; salile — in the water; virāṭ — the entire universe.

Translation

Hordes of clouds called Saṁvartaka pour torrents of rain for one hundred years. Flooding down in raindrops as long as the trunk of an elephant, the deadly rainfall submerges the entire universe in water.