Although the sky cloudless, thunderbolts fell on the earth, accompanied by dreadful rumbling the flashes of lightning; and the Earth with her mountains, hills and forests, began to quake.
शुष्काशन्यश्च निष्पेतुः सनिर्घाताः सविद्युतः। चचाल चापि पृथिवी सशैलवनकानना॥