Verse 15

³As those two were being born, many portents fell there, in the sky, on the earth and in the space between, bringing great fear upon the world. ⁴The earth shook with its mountains. Every quarter blazed. Meteors and thunderbolts fell, and comets that bring distress. ⁵A wind blew that was harsh to the touch, raising howls again and again, tearing up the lords of the trees, an army of whirlwinds with dust for its banner. ⁶With masses of cloud laughing out in lightning, the constellations lost, and darkness come into the sky, not a step could be seen. ⁷The sea cried out in dejection, its waves high and its belly churning; and the rivers with their wells were troubled, their lotuses withered.

⁸Again and again haloes formed about the moon and the sun with Rahu; and crashes like the noise of chariots arose out of the caverns. ⁹Within the villages she-jackals, vomiting fierce fire from their mouths, howled ill fortune, along with the cries of jackals and of owls. ¹⁰Raising their necks, the dogs let out all manner of cries, now like singing and now like weeping, from this side and from that. ¹¹And asses, Ksatta, striking the ground with their hard hooves, maddened and violent with their braying, ran about in herds. ¹²Birds, frightened by the asses, flew up crying from their nests; and the cattle in the pens and in the forest passed dung and urine.

¹³Cows were terrified and gave blood for milk. Clouds rained pus. The images of the gods wept. Trees fell where there was no wind. ¹⁴Other planets, blazing, passed over the most auspicious planets and the constellations in a backward course, and fought with one another. ¹⁵Seeing these and other great portents, the people, who did not know their truth, all but the sons of Brahma, were afraid and thought the universe was being dissolved.