Within, the twinkling of the eye all mobile and immobile creatures being thus destroyed, the Earth becomes on all sides, bare as a tortoise shell.
एतदुन्मेषमात्रेण विनष्टं स्थाणु जङ्गमम्। कूर्मपृष्ठसमा भूमिर्भवत्यथ समन्ततः॥