Canto 11: General HistoryChapter 3: Liberation from the Illusory Energy

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.3.11

samvartako megha-gano

varshati sma śatam samāh

dhārābhir hasti-hastābhir

līyate salile virāt

SYNONYMS

samvartakah — of annihilation; megha-ganah — hoards of clouds; varshati — will rain; sma — indeed; śatam samāh — for one hundred years; dhārābhih — with torrents; hasti-hastābhih — (raindrops measuring the length of) elephant trunks; līyate — will merge; salilein the water; virāt — the entire universe.

TRANSLATION

Hoards of clouds called Samvartaka pour torrents of rain for one hundred years. Flooding down in raindrops as long as the trunk of an elephant, the deadly rainfall submerges the entire universe in water.

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