तस्मिंस्तथा वर्तमाने कष्टे विधिविपर्यये ।अशेषजनताशेषकल्पान्तसदृशस्थितौ
In plain words
While that grievous calamity, that perverse reversal of fate, was thus unfolding -- while the state of things, for the whole populace entire, resembled nothing less than the very end of an age --