Moving and non moving entities died even upon touching (abhimarsita) the wind which had touched the poisonous waves and was filled with the poison water drops (viprusmata).

The wind was filled with drops of poisonous water because the foam and bubbles would rise from the lake quickly at all times because the water was boiling. Thus the wind was burning with poison also. Hari-vaṁśa describes other details. dīrghaṁ yojana-vistāraṁ dustaraṁ tridaśair api gambhīram akṣobhya-jalaṁ niṣkampam iva sāgaram duḥkhopasarpaṁ tīreṣu sa-sarpair vipulair bilaiḥ viṣāraṇi-bhavasyāgner dhūmena pariveṣṭitam tṛṇeṣv api patatsv apsu jvalantam iva tejasā samantād yojanaṁ sāgraṁ tīreṣv api durāsadam The lake was quite wide—eight miles across at some points—and even the devatās could not cross over it. The water in the lake was very deep and, like the immovable depths of the ocean, could not be agitated. Approaching the lake was difficult, for its shores were covered with holes in which serpents lived. All around the lake was a fog generated by the fire of the serpents’ poison, and this powerful fire would at once burn up every blade of grass that happened to fall into the water. For a distance of eight miles from the lake, the shore could not be approached. Kāliya lived in a cave in the ground, or within the water, by using powers to stop the water from entering.