The Kanka birds, the vultures and the cranes are incessantly uttering cries. The jackals are uttering inauspicious and dreadful yells foreboding a terrible calamity.
कङ्का गृध्रा बलाकश्च व्याहरन्ति मुहुर्मुहुः। शिवाश्चैवाशिवा घोरा वेदयन्त्यो महद् भयम्॥