Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.80.37

sūryaś cāstaḿ gatas tāvat

tamasā cāvṛtā diśaḥ

nimnaḿ kūlaḿ jala-mayaḿ

na prājñāyata kiñcana

SYNONYMS

sūryaḥ — the sun; ca — and; astam gataḥ — having set; tāvat — thereupon; tamasā — by darkness; ca — and; āvṛtāḥ — covered; diśaḥ — all the directions; nimnam — low; kūlam — high land; jala-mayam — with water all around; na prājñāyata — could not be recognized; kiñcana — any.

TRANSLATION

Then, as the sun set, the forest was covered by darkness in every direction, and with all the flooding we could not distinguish high land from low.

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