4. Another of these was smashed in his contest with a Rákshasa, who bore his mangled body aloft in air, and then cast it amidst the marine fire, where it was burnt to ashes.
5. The third was taken up by a Vidyádhara, to the region of the celestials; where he was reduced to ashes by curse of the god Indra, who was offended at the prince’s want of respect towards him.
6. The fourth that went to the farthest edge of a mountain in the Kusadwípa, was caught by a shark on the sea shore, which tore his body to eight pieces.
7. In this manner did all these four lose their lives on all sides, and they all fell as sorrowfully as the regents of the four quarters, at the last dissolution of the world on the doomsday.
8. After they were reduced to the state of vacuity amidst the vast vacuum, their vacuous and self-conscious souls, were led by the reminiscence of their former states to behold the earth (to which they had been so much attached).
9. They saw the seven continents with their belts of the seven oceans, and also the cities and towns with which they were decorated every where.
10. They beheld the sky above, with the orbs of the sun and moon forming the pupils of its eyes; and also the clusters of stars, that were hanging as chains of pearls about its neck, and the flaky clouds that formed its folded vest.
11. They saw with their intellectual eye, the stupendous bodies that rose out of chaos at the revolutions of past kalpa cycles, and filled the amplitude of the sky and all sides of the horizon with the gigantic forms. (These were the big bodies of the many Unitarian Saivas that appeared at the beginning of repeated creations).
12. Being possest of their consciousness in their spiritual forms, they descended to observe the manners of elemental bodies that were exposed before them.
13. All the four Vipaschitas were actuated by their previous impressions, to the inquiry into the measure and extent of the ignorance, which led people to the belief of the body as soul itself, in want of their knowledge of the spiritual soul (as it is the case with gross materialists).