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. 51. O Krauncha dwípa! that didst abound in Kalpa arbour which were inseparably clasped by the twining ivy of golden hue; say where art <thou> hid with thy towering Krauncha mountain. 52. O Puskara dwípa! where art thou now with thy limpid fountains, which were ever decked with beds of lotus bushes, sported upon by the silvery swans of Brahmá? 53. O where are thy Kadamba groves gone, with their outstretched branches on all sides; and whose sheltered coverts were frequented by aerial nymphs, for their secluded amusements. 54. O where is the _Gomedha_ dwípa gone with its springs of sweet waters, and the flowery gardens about its holy places? And where <are> those vales and dales, which were beautified by Kalpa trees and their golden creepers? 55. Ah! where is the Saka dwípa with its forests of heavenly and ever verdant arbours, the very remembrance of whose fair spectacles, raises in the minds the sense of holiness and the sensations of heavenly bliss.