स्थूणास्थूला वर्षधारा मुञ्चत्स्वभ्रेष्वभीक्ष्णश: । जलौघै: प्लाव्यमाना भूर्नादृश्यत नतोन्नतम् ॥ १० ॥
sthūṇā-sthūlā varṣa-dhārā muñcatsv abhreṣv abhīkṣṇaśaḥ jalaughaiḥ plāvyamānā bhūr nādṛśyata natonnatam
- sthūṇā
- like columns
- sthūlāḥ
- massive
- varsa-dhārāḥ
- downpours of rain
- muñcatsu
- releasing
- abhreṣu
- the clouds
- abhīkṣṇaśaḥ
- incessantly
- jala-oghaiḥ
- by the flood of water
- plāvyamānā
- being submerged
- bhūḥ
- the earth
- na adṛśyata
- could not be seen
- nataunnatam
- low or high
As the clouds released torrents of rain as thick as massive columns, the earth was submerged in the flood, and high ground could no longer be distinguished from low.