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ŚB 8.20.30

Devanagari

सर्वात्मनीदं भुवनं निरीक्ष्य
सर्वेऽसुरा: कश्मलमापुरङ्ग ।
सुदर्शनं चक्रमसह्यतेजो
धनुश्च शार्ङ्गं स्तनयित्नुघोषम् ॥ ३० ॥

Text

sarvātmanīdaṁ bhuvanaṁ nirīkṣya
sarve ’surāḥ kaśmalam āpur aṅga
sudarśanaṁ cakram asahya-tejo
dhanuś ca śārṅgaṁ stanayitnu-ghoṣam

Synonyms

sarva-ātmani — in the supreme whole, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; idam — this universe; bhuvanam — the three worlds; nirīkṣya — by observing; sarve — all; asurāḥ — the demons, the associates of Bali Mahārāja; kaśmalam — lamentation; āpuḥ — received; aṅga — O King; sudarśanam — named Sudarśana; cakram — the disc; asahya — unbearable; tejaḥ — the heat of which; dhanuḥ ca — and the bow; śārṅgam — named Śārṅga; stanayitnu — the resounding of assembled clouds; ghoṣam — sounding like.

Translation

O King, when all the demons, the followers of Mahārāja Bali, saw the universal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who held everything within His body, when they saw in the Lord’s hand His disc, known as the Sudarśana cakra, which generates intolerable heat, and when they heard the tumultuous sound of His bow, all of these caused lamentation within their hearts.