Verse 48

⁴⁸He passed the seven islands and the seven seas, and the seven times seven mountains, and Lokaloka too, and entered a very great darkness. ⁴⁹There the horses Saibya, Sugriva, Meghapuspa and Balahaka lost their way in the darkness, bull of the Bharatas. ⁵⁰Seeing them, the Bhagavan Krsna, great lord of the lords of yoga, sent his own discus on ahead, like a thousand suns. ⁵¹Tearing that great darkness, terrible and thick, with a light greater than any other, the discus Sudarsana, swift as thought, went into it as Rama's arrow, loosed from the string, goes into an army. ⁵²Through the door the discus made along its path, Phalguna, seeing that darkness reaching to a light beyond and beyond it, without end and without shore, his eyes struck by it, closed them both.

⁵³Then he entered a water stirred by a wind of great strength, adorned with huge waves; and there was a wonderful dwelling, full of light, shining with a thousand pillars of blazing jewels. ⁵⁴In it was the Endless, wonderful, of great coils, blazing with the jewels on the hoods of his thousand heads, terrible with twice as many eyes, like a white mountain, his tongues like the throat of the blue-throated one.