14. Methought I felt raptures of inexpressible delight fill my whole soul, at the thought of all thy blandishments and graces, and in the allurements of thy speech, sweet smiles and sidelong glances, and all the gestures and motions of thy person, that spread an ambrosial charm all around me.
15. Methought we clasped in mutual embraces, and together in amorous folds; till exhausted with surfeit, I lay upon the cool soft bed, as if I was drowned in the cold and icy ocean of the lunar disc.
16. At this moment as I lay long in my bed, bedewed with cool sandal paste, and the cooling beams of the full-moon; I heard a thundering noise accompanied with flames of fire, rising from the burning pile of woods under me, as it was the submarine fire, proceeding from the milky ocean wherein I was lying.
17. The companions resumed:—When the husband had said so far, his listening spouse cried out aloud; saying “Ah me! I am dead, I am gone,” and for fear of hearing the sad consequence, fell into a swoon and became senseless.
18. The husband finding her fainting, began to wave over her <a> fan of lotus leaves, besprinkled with water; and taking her up to his bosom, tried to restore her to her senses.
19. Being then desired by her to finish his tale, he began to relate the remainder by holding her chin with his hand.
20. As I felt the pain of the burning flame touching my body, I cried out and groaned in affliction; the spectators hastened to extinguish the blazing pile, and felt delighted to find me alive.
21. The attendants then with loud shouts of joy, like the sound of drums &c. and with garlands of flowers, raised and embraced me to their bosoms; and went on shouting and singing and dancing and laughing with exultation.
22. I then saw the funeral ground resembling the formidable body of Bhairava—the god of destruction. It was equally covered with ashes, wreathed with snakes and studded with human skulls: and the scattered bones that were strewn over the ground, seemed as the beams of the moon crowning the head of Siva.
23. Here hot winds were blowing from the funeral piles, as from the burning fire on Hara’s head; and bearing the burnt ashes of the dead bodies, as a dark mist all around; they bore stink of the rotten bones to the air, and carried about the rustling noise of the bones jostling against one another.