Mahabharata · Chapter 3.171
tato'haṃ stūyamānastu tatratatra surapibhiḥ /
apaśyamudadhiṃ bhīmamapāmpatimathāvyayam //
phenavatyaḥ prakīrṇāśca saṃhatāśca samucchitāḥ /
ūrmayaścātra dṛśyante calantaiva parvatāḥ //
nāvaḥ sahasraśastatra ratnapūrṇāḥ samantataḥ /
nabhasīva vimānāni vicarantyo virejire //
timiṅgilāḥ kacchapāś tathā timitibhiṅgilāḥ /
makarāścātra dṛśyante jale maprā ivādrayaḥ //
śaṅkhānāṃ ca mahabāṇi magrānyapsu mamantataḥ /
dṛśyante sma yathā rātrau tārāstanvabhramaṃvṛtāḥ //
tathā sahasraśastatraratnasaṅghāḥ plavantyuta /
vāyuś ghṛrṇate bhīmastadadbhutamivābhavat //
tamatītya mahāvegaṃ sarvāmbhonidhimuttamam /
apaśyaṃ dānavākīrṇaṃ taddaityapuramantikāt //
tatraiva mātalistṛṇaṃ nipātya pṛthivītale /
dānavānrathaghopeṇa tanpuraṃ samupādravat //
rathaghoṣaṃ tu taṃ śrutvā stanayitnogvimbare /
manvānā devarājaṃ māmāvignā dānavā'bhavan //
sarve sambhrāntamanasaḥ śagcāpadharāḥ sthitāḥ /
tathā'siśūlaparaśugadāmusalapāṇayaḥ //
tato dvārāṇi pidadhurdānavāstrastacetasaḥ /
saṃvidhāya pure rakṣāṃ na sma kaścana dṛśyate //
tataḥ śaṅkhamupādāya devadattaṃ mahāsvanam /
paramāṃ mudamāśritya prādhamaṃ taṃ śanairaham //
sa tu śabdo divaṃ stabdhvā pratiśabdamajījanat /
vitresuśca nililyuśca bhūtāni sumahāntyapi //
tato nivātakavacāḥ sarva eva samantataḥ /
daṃśitā vividhaistrāṇairvicitrāyupāṇayaḥ //
āyasaiśra mahāśūlairgadābhirmusalairapi /
paṭṭasaiḥ karavālaiśca rathacakraiśca bhārata //
śataghnībhirbhuśuṇḍībhiḥ khaṅgaiścitraiḥ svalankṛtaiḥ /
pragṛhītairditeḥ putrāḥ prādurāsansahasraśaḥ //
tato vicārya bahuśo rathamārgeṣu tānhayān /
prācodayatsame deśe mātalirbharatarṣabha //
tena teṣāṃ praṇunnānāsāśutvācchīghragāminām /
nānvapaśyattadā kaśrittanme'dbhutamivābhavat //
tataste dānavāstatrayodhavātānyanekaśaḥ /
vikṛtasvararūpāṇi bhṛśaṃ sarvāṇyacodayan //
tena śabdena sahasā samudre parvatopamāḥ /
āplavanta gataiḥ satvairmatsyāḥ śatasahasraśaḥ //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0