10. He fell flat with his languid limbs in a large blind pit, amidst the deep gloom of a dark night, and in the depth of a dire dark cave (from which he could not rise).
11. After the lapse of a long time, he scrambled out of the pit with difficulty; and again continued to run away, and strike himself with his own hands as before.
12. He ran again a great way, till at last he fell upon a thorny thicket of Karanja plants, which caught him as fast in its brambles, as a moth or grasshopper is caught in a flame.
13. He with much difficulty extricated himself from the prickles of the Karanja furze; and began again to beat himself as before, and run in his wonted course as usual.
14. Having then gone a great way off from that place, he got to a grove of plantain arbour under the cooling moonbeams, where he sat for a while with a smiling countenance.
15. Having then come out of the plantain grove, he went on running and beating himself in his usual way.
16. Going again a great way in his hurriedness, he fell down again in a great and darksome ditch, by being exhausted in all his limbs and his whole body.
17. Rising from the ditch, he entered a plantain forest, and coming out from that spot, he fell into another ditch and then in another Karanja thicket.
18. Thus he was falling into one ditch after rising from a thorny furze, and repeatedly beating himself and crying in secret.
19. I beheld him going on in this way for a long time, and then I with all my force, rushed forward and stopped him in his way.