The mountains split and the quarters of heaven and the Nagas became stupefied. Enveloped in a pall of gloom the universe was lost to view.
पर्वताश्च व्यशीर्यन्त दिशो नागाश्च मोहिताः॥ अन्धेन तमसा लोका न प्राक्राशन्त संवृताः।