अनेककल्पकल्पाग्रसवृन्दमिव संस्थितम् । प्रलयानिलसंक्षुब्धमेकार्णवमिवोत्थितम् ॥ २५ ॥
anēkakalpakalpāgrasavṛndamiva saṁsthitam | pralayānilasaṁkṣubdhamēkārṇavamivōtthitam || 25 ||
Translation
standing like a host of the clouds of many world-ends gathered at its front; risen like the one ocean stirred by the wind of dissolution;
Word by word
- anēka
- many
- kalpa
- of world-ends, like the clouds
- agra
- at its front
- sa
- gathered
- vṛndam
- a host
- iva
- like
- saṁsthitam
- standing
- pralaya
- of dissolution
- anila
- by the wind
- saṁkṣubdham
- stirred
- ēkārṇavam
- the one ocean
- utthitam
- risen
Meaning
The images grow to the size of the cosmos. At the end of an age, great clouds (both commentaries name the puṣkara and āvarta clouds of the dissolution) gather to drown the world. So the armies stand massed at their front. And like the single ocean of the dissolution, stirred by its wind, they rise.