pāñcajanya - of Pāñcajanya, Lord Kṛṣṇa's conchshell; dhvanim - the vibration; śrutvā - hearing; yuga - of the universal era; anta - at the end; aśani - (like the sound) of lightning; bhīṣaṇam - terrifying; muraḥ - Mura; śayānaḥ - sleeping; uttasthau - stood up; daityaḥ - the demon; pañca-śirāḥ - five-headed; jalāt - from the water (of the moat surrounding the fortress).

The five-headed demon Mura, who slept at the bottom of the city’s moat, awoke and rose up out of the water when he heard the vibration of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s Pāñcajanya conchshell, a sound as terrifying as the thunder at the end of the cosmic age.