Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.3.11

saḿvartako megha-gaṇo

varṣati sma śataḿ samāḥ

dhārābhir hasti-hastābhir

līyate salile virāṭ

SYNONYMS

saḿvartakaḥ — of annihilation; megha-gaṇaḥ — hoards of clouds; varṣati — will rain; sma — indeed; śatam samāḥ — for one hundred years; dhārābhiḥ — with torrents; hasti-hastābhiḥ — (raindrops measuring the length of) elephant trunks; līyate — will merge; salile — in the water; virāṭ — the entire universe.

TRANSLATION

Hoards of clouds called Saḿvartaka 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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