yasya - whose; nirhrāditena - by the reverberating sound; aṅga - my dear King (Parīkṣit); niṣṭhureṇa - rough; gavām - of cows; nṛṇām - of humans; patanti - fall; akālataḥ - untimely; garbhāḥ - the embryos; sravanti sma - are miscarried; bhayena - out of fear; vai - indeed; nirviśanti - enter; ghanāḥ - clouds; yasya - whose; kakudi - onto the hump; acala - as a mountain; śaṅkayā - by the mistaken identification; tam - him; tīkṣṇa - sharp; śṛṅgam - whose horns; udvīkṣya - seeing; gopyaḥ - the cowherd women; gopāḥ - the cowherd men; ca - and; tatrasuḥ - became frightened.

My dear King, clouds hovered about sharp-horned Ariṣṭāsura’s hump, mistaking it for a mountain, and when the cowherd men and ladies caught sight of the demon, they were struck with terror. Indeed, the strident reverberation of his roar so frightened the pregnant cows and women that they lost their fetuses in miscarriages.