All creatures that heard that cry thought that the hour of universal destruction was near at hand when all things would be devoured by the fire that arises at the end of the cycle.
युगान्तकाले सम्प्राप्ते भूतानां दह्यतामिव। अभावः स्यादयं प्राप्त इति भूतानि मेनिरे॥