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## Fifth Chapter
Having paid homage to the Siddha images with great reverence, they began to dig a trench around the mountain with their Danda-ratna. || 250 || Seeing the earth dug down to the roots of the earth, the Naga-indra, inflamed with anger, looked at them. || 251 || The sons of the Chakravarti, whose bodies were consumed by the flames of the Naga-indra's anger, were reduced to ashes. || 252 || Just as there is a life-giving power amidst the deadly power of poison, which sometimes acts as a medicine and becomes the cause of life, so also in the anger of the Naga-indra, where there was the power to burn, there was also a compassionate outcome. Due to this compassionate outcome, two sons, Bhima and Bhagiratha, were somehow not burnt to ashes. || 253 || Seeing this sudden death of the sons of the Chakravarti Sagar, both of them were grieved and went to Sagar. || 254 || Fearing that the Chakravarti might suddenly lose his life upon hearing this news, the learned men forbade Bhima and Bhagiratha from telling the Chakravarti this news. || 255 || Then the king, the hereditary ministers, the learned men who were experts in various scriptures, and the wise men who were connoisseurs of entertainment, gathered together and went to the Chakravarti. At that time, there was no difference in the radiance of their faces, and their attire was also the same as before. All of them went to the Chakravarti Sagar with reverence, just as before. || 256-257 || After paying their respects and sitting in their respective places, an elder, prompted by their gestures, began to speak these words. || 258 ||
O King Sagar! You see the impermanence of the world, seeing which the mind does not turn towards the world. || 259 || Before you, there was a king named Bharat, who was equal to you in prowess, who had subdued this six-part earth, making it like a slave. || 260 || He had a son named Arka-kirti, who was a great warrior, and whose name this solar dynasty is still known by. || 261 || Arka-kirti also had a son, and his son also had a son, but now all of them have gone beyond the reach of sight. || 262 ||