kaścit - a certain; mahān - great; ahiḥ - snake; tasmin - in that; vipine - area of the forest; ati-bubhukṣitaḥ - extremely hungry; yadṛcchayā - by chance; āgataḥ - came there; nandam - Nanda Mahārāja; śayānam - who was lying asleep; ura-gaḥ - moving on his belly; agrasīt - swallowed.

During the night a huge and extremely hungry snake appeared in that thicket. Slithering on his belly up to the sleeping Nanda Mahārāja, the snake began swallowing him.