28. The forest was redolent with fragrance, and the sky was overhung by a cloud of flowers; the dust of Kadamba blossoms tinged the ground with ambergrees, and the Kadamba fruits covered the face of the land.
29. What need is there of saying more, than that there was no part of the tree, which was not useful to living beings.
30. Here the deer were sleeping on the fallen leaves and there were others resting on the barren ground; the birds sat on the banks and beaches of the rivulets all about that lofty tree.
31. As they were viewing in this manner the beauties of the forest, the night passed away as soon as a night of festivity.
32. The son of the hermit kept conversing with me on many subjects, and derived many useful instructions from my teaching.
33. As we had been conversing with one another on different subjects, the night passed away as soon as that of a conjugal pair.
34. Now it began to dawn, and the blushing flowers commenced to ope their petals; while the host of the stars on high, disappeared from their arena of the sky.
35. I then took my departure, and was followed by the hermit and his son to some distance from their Kadamba tree, where I left them for my aerial course to the heavenly stream.
36. There having performed my holy ablution, I came down under the vault of heaven, and then entered the celestial region of the sages, which is situated in the midway sky.
37. Now I have related to you, Ráma, this story of Dásúra, that you may learn from his instance the unreality of the apparent world, and as it is but a shadow of the ideal one (in the Divine mind).