8. So when the desires of the demons Dáma and others, became identified with their selves, their souls were degraded from their greatness, and confined to the belief of the desired objects.
9. All worldly desires lead to erroneous expectations, and those that are entangled in the snares of their expectations, are thereby reduced to the meanness of their spirits.
10. Falling into the errors of egotism and selfishness, they were led to the blunder of mei tatem or thinking these things as mine; just as a man mistakes a rope for a snake.
11. Being reduced to the depravity of selfishness, they began to think their personalities to consist in their bodies, and to reflect how their bodies from the head to foot could be safe and secure from harm.
12. They lost their patience by continually thinking on the stability of their bodies, and their properties and pleasures of life. (i.e. The eager desire of worldly gain and good, grows into impatience at last).
13. Desire of their enjoyments, diminished their strength and valour; and their former acts of gallantry now became a dead letter to them.
14. They thought only how to become lords of the earth, and thus became lazy and enervated, as lotus-flowers without water. (As the thought of grandeur enervated the Romans to impotence).
15. Their pride and egoism led their inclination to the pleasures of good eating and drinking, and to the possession of every worldly good. (Luxury is the bane of valour).
16. They began to hesitate in joining the warfare, and became as timid as the timorous deer, to encounter the furious elephants in their ravages of the forest.
17. They moved slowly in despair of their victory, and for fear of losing their lives, in their encounter with the furious elephants (of the gods) in the field.