41. Sitting in those parts and places, the gods could well behold the pinnacles of the mountain; which were surely bright to sight, and as white as the rainless clouds of the skies (i.e. white as fleecy clouds).
42. Then the maters of furies of heaven, kept on dancing on the wide spread dead body; while the hosts of ghosts were devouring its flesh, as the corpse lay its face turned downwards (i.e. upside down or topsy turvy).
43. Seeing now the streams of reddish blood running around and the putrid stink of rotten body spreading on all sides; the gods all felt sorrowful at heart, and grieved among themselves with exclaiming (as follows).
44. Ah alas! whither hath that earth disappeared, with all the bodies of waters upon her; where are those multitudes of men fled from it, and where are the mountains swept away from its surface.
45. Alas for those forest of sandal, mandara and kadamba woods which had so ornamented the earth! and woe for the flower gardens, and the happy groves of Malaya mountains!
46. Where are those uplands of the lofty and gigantic snowy mountains of Himálaya which appear now to be reduced to lurid clay, by ire of the redhot blood, of the bloody ghost of the carcass.
47. Even the gigantic Kalpa trees, that grew below the Krauncha mountains, in the continent of the Krauncha dwípa; and which had spread its branches up to the Brahma-loka, are now reduced to dirt.
48. O thou lordly milky ocean! where art thou now, that hast produced the moon and the goddess Laxmí from thy bosom; and that didst yield the párijata flower and the celestial ambrosia of the gods of yore.
49. O thou ocean of cards! what has become of thee, that was full with thy waving forest of billows; which rose as high as mountains, and bore about sweet butter with their foaming froth.
50. O thou mellifluous sea of honey, which was bordered by mountains studded by cocoa-nut trees; whose fruits afforded sweet liquor for the beverage of goddesses, where hast thou and they fled at present.