satyam - now the boys decided that it was in fact a living python; arka-kara-āraktam - appearing like the sunshine; uttarā-hanuvat ghanam - on the cloud resembling the upper lips; adharā-hanuvat - resembling the lower lips; rodhaḥ - big bank; tat-praticchāyayā - by the reflection of sunshine; aruṇam - reddish.

Thereafter they decided: Dear friends, this is certainly an animal sitting here to swallow us all. Its upper lip resembles a cloud reddened by the sunshine, and its lower lip resembles the reddish shadows of a cloud.