Then thick clouds of dust, blown up by the storm and resembling heaps of tawny silk, intercepted from the view the welkin in and the sun. Though the sky was cloudless yet a shower of flesh bones and blood fell on the earth.
ततस्तुमुलमाकाशमावृणोत् सदिवाकरम्॥ वातोद्भूतं रजस्तीवं कौशेयनिकरोपमम्। ववर्ष द्यौरनभ्रापि मांसास्थिरुधिराण्युत॥