Verse 24

¹⁸Seeing him standing like that, they all took it for one of Vrndavana's fine sights, and in play they guessed it might be a python with its jaws open. ¹⁹Friends, tell us: this heap of a creature standing in front of us, is it a snake with its jaws open to swallow us, or is it not? ²⁰It is so. That cloud reddened by the sun's rays is like the upper jaw, and the bank below, red with the reflection of it, is like the lower jaw. ²¹The two hollows of the hill on the left and the right are a match for the corners of a mouth, and these high peaks for its fangs. Look at them. ²²This road stretching out its length answers back to a tongue; and this darkness lying inside them, this is the inside of the mouth.

²³Look, this rough wind, hot as a forest fire, seems like breath; and the stench of creatures burnt in it is like the smell of flesh in there. ²⁴Will it swallow us if we go in? If it does, it will be destroyed in a moment by him, as Baka was. So they said, and looking at the bright face of Baka's enemy they went on, laughing and clapping their hands.