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Bhagavat 7:6:117-119
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What' would be the manifest shape and mode of the continent of Bharata in the Island of Jambudvipa, O Lord! in the severest aeon of extreme privation in this descending cycle?
Gautama! the period will be sorrowful, fraught with groaning of animals, tumultuous. By the influence of the time there will blow cyclonic winds, full of dry and rough dust, unbearable, storming and terrible. The directions will be continually smoky, full of dust and tainted with dusty particles, devoid of sunshine on account of the layers of darkness. On account of the harshness of the times, the moon will be colder and sun will be hotter. There will frequently be many clouds with water devoid of taste, with water of bad taste, with water of taste of baking soda, with water of taste of cowdung, with water hot like fire, with flashes of lightning, with water, vomiting poison, with thunderbolts. Water of those clouds will be undrinkable. They will produce diseases, ailments and pain. It will be unpleasant. There will be torrential rains accompanied with fierce winds. On account of those rains, in the continent of Bharata, the areas of the villages, mines, cities, places yielding no revenue, commercial places, capitals, places surrounded by mud walls, hamlets, ports, hermitages etc., the quadrupeds, the birds, the domestic and wild animals and many varieties of trees, shrubs, bamboos, crippers, clinging plants, grass, knotty crippers, green trees, herbs, tender leaves, sprouts etc. and all other vegetation will meet destruction. Excepting the Vaitāḍhya Mountain and all other mountains, hills, hillocks, mounds will be annihilated. Excepting the Ganga (Ganges) and the Sindhu (Indus) all other fountains, pools, forts, uneven lands and rough spaces will become flat.
7.118 tise nam bhamte! samãe bharahassa vāsassa bhūmie kerisae āgārabhavapadoyare bhavissati?
goyamā! bhūmi bhavissati imgālabbhūyā mummurabbhūya chāriyabhūyā tattakavellayabbhūya tattasamajotibbhūyā dhūlibahulā reṇubahulā pamkabahulā panagabahula calaṇibahulā bahūṇam dharanigoyarāṇam sattāṇam dunnikkamā yavi bhavissati.
What will be the manifest shape and mode of the land of the continent of Bharata in that aeon, O Lord?
Gautama! the land will be like charcoal, chaff-fire, hot ashes and like hot pan. The land will be hot like fire, like hot cauldron, like a burning flame, full of dust, full of dirt, full of mud, full of moss, extremely slippery. The land will be very difficult to tread on by the terrestrial creatures.
7.119 tise nam bhamte! samãe bharahe väse maṇuyāṇam kerisae ägarabhavapadoyare bhavissai?
goyamā! maṇuya bhavissamti durävä duvanna duggamdha durasă duphasă aniṭṭhā akamtā appiyā asubhā amaṇuṛṇā amaṇāmā hīņassarā dīņassarā aniṭṭhassarā akamtassarā appiyassarā asubhassarā amaṇuṇṇassarā
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