Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.25.10

sthūṇā-sthūlā varṣa-dhārā

muñcatsv abhreṣv abhīkṣṇaśaḥ

jalaughaiḥ plāvyamānā bhūr

nādṛśyata natonnatam

SYNONYMS

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.

TRANSLATION

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.

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