jala-oghaih -- by the floodwater; nirabhidyanta -- became broken; setavah -- the dikes; varshati -- when he is showering rain; isvare -- Lord Indra; pashandinam -- of the atheists; asat-vadaih -- by the false theories; veda-margah -- the paths of the Vedas; kalau -- in the Kali-yuga; yatha -- as.

When Indra sent forth his rains, the floodwaters broke through the irrigation dikes in the agricultural fields, just as in the Kali-yuga the atheists' false theories break down the boundaries of Vedic injunctions.