17. Old age with its hooping cough lays hold on a man, just as a vulture seizes its prey with loud shrieks in order to devour it. 18. As a girl eagerly lays hold on a lotus flower whenever she meets with one, and then plucks it from its stalk and tears it to pieces, so does old age overtake the body of a person and break it down at last. 19. As the chill blast of winter shakes a tree and covers its leaves with dust, so does old age seize the body with a tremor and fill all its limbs with the rust of diseases. 20. The body overtaken by old age becomes as pale and battered, as a lotus flower beaten by frost becomes withered and shattered. 21. As moon-beams contribute to the growth of _Kumuda_ flowers on the top of mountains, so does old age produce grey hairs resembling _casla_ flowers on the heads of men (with inward phlegm and gout). 22. Death the lord of all beings, views the grey head of a man as a ripe pumpkin seasoned with the salt of old age, and devours it with zest. 23. As the Ganges upsets a neighbouring tree by its rapid course, so does old age destroy the body, as the current of our life runs fast to decay. 24. Old age which preys on the flesh of the human body, takes as much delight in devouring its youthful bloom as a cat does in feeding upon a mouse. 25. Decrepitude raises its ominous hoarse sound of hiccough in the body, as the jackal sends forth her hideous cry amidst the forest. 26. Dotage as an inward flame consumes the living body as a wet log of wood, which thereupon emits its hissing sounds of hiccough and hard breathing, and sends up the gloomy fumes of woe and sighs. 27. The body like a flowering creeper, bends down under the pressure of age, turns to grey like the fading leaves of a plant, and becomes as lean and thin as a plant after its flowering time is over. 28. As the infuriate elephant upsets the white plantain tree in a moment, so does old age destroy the body that becomes as white as camphor all over. 29. Senility, O sage! is as the standard bearer of the king of death, flapping his _chouri_ of grey hairs before him, and bringing in his train an army of diseases and troubles. 30. The monster of old age, will even overcome those that were never defeated in wars by their enemies, and those that hide themselves in the inaccessible caverns of mountains. 31. As infants cannot play in a room that has become cold with snow, so the senses can have no play in the body that is stricken with age. 32. Old age like a juggling girl, struts on three legs at the sound of coughing and whiffing, beating as a tymbal on both sides. 33. The tuft of grey hairs on the head of the aged body, represents a white flapper (_chouri_) fastened to the top of a handle of white sandal wood, to welcome the despot of death. 34. As hoary age makes his advance like moon-light on the site of the body, he calls forth the hidden death to come out of it, as the moon-light makes the _nilumbium_ to unfold its buds.