पद्मास्तुषारप्रावृष्ट्या ग्रामाः सावग्रहा इव ।दाववन्त इवाद्रीन्द्रा नागरा न विरेजिरे
In plain words
The citizens no longer shone -- like lotuses under a fall of frost, like villages gripped by drought, like great mountains ablaze with wildfire.
पद्मास्तुषारप्रावृष्ट्या ग्रामाः सावग्रहा इव ।दाववन्त इवाद्रीन्द्रा नागरा न विरेजिरे
The citizens no longer shone -- like lotuses under a fall of frost, like villages gripped by drought, like great mountains ablaze with wildfire.