The people being affected with hunger and starvation, became like dead skeletons, and the city looked like the land of the king of the dead full of ghostly beings.
तत् क्षुधातैर्निराहारैः शवभूतैस्तथा नरैः। अभवत् प्रेतराजस्य पुरं प्रेतैरिवावृतम्॥