12. The evil desires and wicked propensities, which they contracted in the company of the hellish train, caused their transmigration to the forms of Kirátas, for carrying on their slaughters and atrocities like the myrmidons of Yama.
13. Getting rid of that birth, they were next born as ravens, and then as vultures and falcons of mountain caves (preying on the harmless birds below).
14. They were then transformed to the forms of hogs in the land of Trigarta, and then as mountain rams in Magadha, and afterwards of heinous reptiles in caves and holes.
15. Thus after passing successively into a variety of other forms, they are now lying as fishes in the wood-land lakes of Cashmir.
16. Being burnt in hell fire at first, they have now their respite in the watery lake, and drink its filthy water, whereby they neither die nor live to their hearts content.
17. Having thus passed over and over into various births, and being transformed again and again to be reborn on earth, they are rolling like waves of the sea to all eternity.
18. Thus like their endless desires, they have been eternally rolling like weeds in the ocean of the earth; and there is no end of their pains until the end of their desires.
CHAPTER XXXI.
INVESTIGATION OF REALITY AND UNREALITY
Argument. Egoism the cause of Poverty and Calamity, illustrated in the instance of Dáma and others.
Vasishtha continued:—It was for your enlightenment, O high minded Ráma! that I have related to you the instance of Dáma and Vyála, that you may derive instruction thereby, and not let it go for nothing as a mere idle story.