2. Indra the lord of the assemblage of creatures, has been performing his hundred fold sacrifices in his celestial abode; and there I am invited to attend by an invocation of him.
3. Bhása said:—Saying so, the lord Agni disappeared from that place; and passed through the transparent ether like the electric fire of lightning.
4. I was then led by my predestination to roam about in the air; and direct my mind into the investigation of my allotted acts, and the termination of my ignorance.
5. I beheld again an innumerable host of heavenly bodies, roving about in the air; holding their positions at different stations of the firmament, and containing inhabitants of different natures and customs.
6. Some of these were of one and same form, resembling floating umbrellas in the sky; and attracting the hearts of men, by their shining appearance and slow motion. (The great velocity of heavenly bodies, appear to be slow when they are seen by the naked eyes of men from this distant earth).
7. Some of them are of earthy substance, but shining and moving onward like mountains in motion.
8. Some were of woody appearance, and others of stony substance; but they are all lightsome bodies, and all moving onward in their uninterrupted course.
9. I beheld also some figures like carved statues of stone, standing in the open space of my mind, and talking together all their live-long days.
10. In this manner I beheld for a long while, many such figures like images in my dream, and was quite bewildered in my utter ignorance of them.
11. I then intended to perform my austere devotion, in order to obtain my liberation; when the god Indra appeared unto me and said: “no Vipaschit, you are doomed to become a stag again, and not entitled to your liberation now.”