11. Being elated with giddiness, he entered once into the holy hermitage of a sage, and destroyed and defiled the sacred asylum in his rage.
12. The sage denounced his curse upon him and said “whereas thou hast demolished my abode with thy gigantic figure, be thou now be born as a contemptible gnat, by thy immediate death under my curse.”
13. The burning fire created by the rage of the sage, burnt down the Asura to ashes, even at that moment and on the very spot, as the wild fire consumes the woods, and as the submarine fire dries up a channel.
14. Then the Asura became as air, without his form and its supporting body; and his heart and mind became as insensible as in a swoon.
15. His sensibilities fled from him, and became mixed with the etherial air; and were hurled up and down thereabouts, by the course of the flying winds.
16. They existed in the form of the intelligent and airy soul, which was to be the living soul in connection with the body; composed of particles of the undivided elements, of earth, fire, water and air (or the air in motion as distinguished from the vacuous air).
17. The quintessence of five elements being joined with a particle of the intellect, begets a motion of their own accord as the vacuity of the sky, produces the wind by its breath and of its own nature.
18. At last the particle of intellect, is awakened in the airy soul; as the seed developes its germs in connection with the earth, water and air, and in course of time.
19. The understanding (or intellectual part) of the Asura, being fully occupied with the thought of the sage’s curse and that of its having the nature of a gnat; brooded over the reflection of the parts of its body, and became the very gnat in its shape.
20. This puny insect which is born by daylight in dirt, and is blown away by the breath of wind, is the short-lived ephemeral of a day.