Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2568

c9.2568

Thus the city of the Rākṣasas shone as the sun in the day and as the moon in the night. The progress of the Sun in the day became indiscernible. Due to its brightness the Rākṣasa city seemed to be the moon and thinking that it was night, the lotus flowers folded in the day and bloomed in the night. Havoc was caused in the earth as well as in the world of the gods. The sun became unpopular. So he tried to such an cause. At last he found out the cause. He became angry. He looked with fury at the city of the Rākṣasas. Hit by the look, the city lost its merits and began to sink down to the earth.