पाञ्चजन्यध्वनिं श्रुत्वा युगान्तशनिभीषणम् । मुर: शयान उत्तस्थौ दैत्य: पञ्चशिरा जलात् ॥ ६ ॥
pāñcajanya-dhvaniṁ śrutvā yugāntaśani-bhīṣaṇam muraḥ śayāna uttasthau daityaḥ pañca-śirā jalāt
- pāñcajanya
- of Pāñcajanya, Lord Kṛṣṇa’s conchshell
- dhvanim
- the vibration
- śrutvā
- hearing
- yuga
- of the universal era
- anta
- at the end
- aśani
- (like the sound) of lightning
- bhīṣaṇam
- terrifying
- muraḥ
- Mura
- śayānaḥ
- sleeping
- uttasthau
- stood up
- daityaḥ
- the demon
- pañca-śirāḥ
- five-headed
- jalāt
- from the water (of the moat surrounding the fortress)
The five-headed demon Mura, who slept at the bottom of the city’s moat, awoke and rose up out of the water when he heard the vibration of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s Pāñcajanya conchshell, a sound as terrifying as the thunder at the end of the cosmic age.