Piercing through the sky, those meteors fell on the Lunar disc as well. All the points of the compass became filled with smoke and assumed a strange aspect.
शशं चाशु विनिर्भिद्य मण्डलं शशिनोऽपतत्। विपरीता दिशश्चापि सर्वा धूमाकुलास्तथा॥