Impenetrable darkness set in and dreadful tumult prevailed on the field of battle. When such was the condition of things, neither the sky nor the earth, nor the points of the compass, were recognised.
तमश्च घोरं शब्दश्च तदा समभवन्महान्। न द्यौर्न भूमिर्न दिशः प्राज्ञायन्त तथागते॥