None can live when the sun is veiled by clouds.
The disturbance in the movement of the sun was followed by a period as long as a day, when the sun did not appear at all. Living in the eighth century, they must have witnessed the cosmic catastrophes of the days of Isaiah. There is one instance more in the Indian story of the sun being impeded on its path and the ensuing world conflagation. According to Seneca the Great Bear had been the polar constellation. After a cosmic upheaval shifted the sky, a star of the Little Bear became the polar star.