कोऽपि धारयिता वेगं पतन्त्या मे महीतले । अन्यथा भूतलं भित्त्वा नृप यास्ये रसातलम् ॥ ४ ॥
ko ’pi dharayita vegam patantya me mahi-tale anyatha bhu-talam bhittva nrpa yasye rasatalam
- kah
- who is that person
- api
- indeed
- dharayita
- who can sustain
- vegam
- the force of the waves
- patantyah
- while falling down
- me
- of me
- mahi-tale
- upon this earth
- anyatha
- otherwise
- bhu-talam
- the surface of the earth
- bhittva
- piercing
- nrpa
- O King
- yasye
- I shall go down
- rasatalam
- to Patala, the lower part of the universe.
Mother Ganges replied: When I fall from the sky to the surface of the plane earth, the water will certainly be very forceful. Who will sustain that force? If I am not sustained, I shall pierce the surface of the earth and go down to Rasatala, the Patala area of the universe.