All tanks, all sorts of grass and herbs, all immobile beings, and all the four divisions of mobile creatures, are being consumed. The whole universe is about to be shorn of beings. Be pleased, O divine Lord! O you of pious soul this is the boon that I seek at your hands.
पल्वलानि च सर्वाणि सर्वं चैव तृणोपलम्। स्थावरं जङ्गमं चैव भूतग्रामं चतुर्विधम्॥ तदेतद् भस्मसाद्भूतं जगत् सर्वमुपल्लुतम्। प्रसीद भगवन् साधो वर एष वृतो मया॥