36. She saw the same rulers of earth, and the very same Pandits as before; the identic courtiers and the self-same servants as ever.
37. There was the same assemblage of the learned men and friends as before, and the like throng of citizens pursuing their former course of business.
38. She saw on a sudden, the flames of wild fire spreading on all sides even in broad midday light; and the sun and moon appearing both at once in the sky, and the clouds roaring with a tremendous noise, with the whistling of the winds.
39. She saw the trees, the hills, the rivers and the cities flourishing with population; and the many towns, and villages and forests all about.
40. She beheld her royal consort as a boy of ten years of age after shaking off his former frame of old age, sitting amidst the hall with all his former retinue, and all the inhabitants of his village.
SECTION I.
Description of the Court house and the Cortes.
41. Lílá having seen all these began to reflect within herself, whether the inhabitants of this place were living beings or the ghosts of their former living souls.
42. Then having recovered her sense at the removal of her trance, she entered into her inner apartment at midnight, and found the inmates fast bound in sleep.
43. She raised one by one her sleeping companions, and said she was anxious to visit the royal hall.
44. She wanted to be seated beside the throne of her lord, and to clear her doubt by seeing the courtiers all alive.