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CHAPTER XV.
(7) These stupid beings are dropping, like moths, into flame of a lamp,
⚫ (8) These stupid beings are being destroyed, as are monkeys in a trap, (vainya means both a trap or enclosure as also bracelets), (9) These stupid beings are being tortured, as fishes caught in a net,
(10) These stupid beings are being vexed, as are serpents by sticks,*
(11) These stupid beings are being impaled, as are malefac tors on spike,
These stupid beings are rotting, even as weak elephants do in a morass,
(12)
(13) These stupid beings are in distress, as are those whose ships are wrecked in mid-ocean,
(14) These stupid beings are precipitating themselves, as the born-blind do in a large waterfall,
(15) These stupid beings are progressing, like water in a crevice, downwards to the nether regions,
(16) These stupid beings are being smashed, as is the great earth at the end of an con,
(17) These stupid beings are whirling like a potter's wheel turning on its pivot,
(18) These stupid beings are kept roaming about like the born-blind on a mountain,
(19) These stupid beings are pulling at different sides like leashed dogs,
(20) These stupid beings are being dried up like grass and trees in summer,
(21) These stupid beings are wasting like the moon in the
wane,
(22) These stupid beings are being eaten up, as are serpents" by Garuda &
(28) be stupid beings are being devoured like boats by a great whale, (makara).
Not given in M. Foucaux's translation.
