On one such occasion, the Earth knowing that the boon-giving hour has come, solicited a boon for her son Naraka; hear, I shall tell it to you.
तं तु कालमनुप्राप्तं विदित्वा पृथिवी तदा। अयाचत वरं यन्मां नरकार्थाय तच्छृणु॥