सूर्यश्चास्तं गतस्तावत् तमसा चावृता दिश: । निम्नं कूलं जलमयं न प्राज्ञायत किञ्चन ॥ ३७ ॥
sūryaś cāstaṁ gatas tāvat tamasā cāvṛtā diśaḥ nimnaṁ kūlaṁ jala-mayaṁ na prājñāyata kiñcana
- sūryaḥ
- the sun
- ca
- and
- astam gataḥ
- having set
- tāvat
- thereupon
- tamasā
- by darkness
- ca
- and
- āvṛtāḥ
- covered
- diśaḥ
- all the directions
- nimnam
- low
- kūlam
- high land
- jala-mayam
- with water all around
- na prājñāyata
- could not be recognized
- kiñcana
- any
Then, as the sun set, the forest was covered by darkness in every direction, and with all the flooding we could not distinguish high land from low.