As birds in great affliction rose by thousands into the skies when the trees of the forest were shaken in a great storm, so the Nishadas, blinded by the dust raised by the storm, entered into the wide-opened mouth of the great snake-eater.
तदाननं विवृतमतिप्रमाणवत् समभ्ययुर्गगनमिवार्दिताः खगाः। सहस्रशः पवनरजो विमोहिता यथाऽनिलप्रचलितपादपे वने॥