16. Going again a great way in his hurriedness, he fell down again in a great and darksome ditch, by being exhausted in all his limbs and his whole body. 17. Rising from the ditch, he entered a plantain forest, and coming out from that spot, he fell into another ditch and then in another _Karanja_ thicket. 18. Thus he was falling into one ditch after rising from a thorny furze, and repeatedly beating himself and crying in secret. 19. I beheld him going on in this way for a long time, and then I with all my force, rushed forward and stopped him in his way. 20. I asked him saying:—Who are you Sir, and why do you act in this manner? What business have you in this place, and why do you wail and trouble yourself for nothing? 21. Being thus asked by me, O Ráma! he answered me saying:—I am no body, O sage! nor do I do any such thing as you are telling me about. 22. I am here stricken by you, and you are my greatest enemy; I am here beheld and persecuted by you, both to my great sorrow and delight. 23. Saying so, he looked sorrowfully into his bruised body and limbs, and then cried aloud and wept a flood of tears, which fell like a shower of rain on the forest ground. 24. After a short while he ceased from his weeping, and then looking at his limbs, he laughed and cried aloud in his mirth. 25. After his laughter and loud shouts were over, hear, O Ráma! what the man next did before me. He began to tear off and separate the members of his big body, and cast them away on all sides. 26. He first let fall his big head, and then his arms, and afterwards his breast and then his belly also. 27. Thus the man having severed the parts of his body one after another, was now ready to remove himself elsewhere with his legs only, by the decree of his destiny. 28. After he had gone, there appeared another man to my sight, of the same form and figure with the former one, and striking his body himself as the other. 29. He kept running with his big legs and outstretched stout arms, until he fell into the pit, whence he rose again, and betook to his flight as before. 30. He fell into a pond again, and then rose and ran with his body wringing with pain; falling again in hidden caves, and then resorting to the cooling shade of forest trees. 31. Now ailing and now regaling, and now torturing himself with his own hands; and in this way I saw him for sometime with horror and surprise in myself. 32. I stopped him in his course, and asked about what he was doing; to which he returned his crying and laughter for his answers by turns. 33. Finding at last his body and limbs decaying in their strength, he thought upon the power of destiny, and the state of human lot, and was prepared to depart. 34. I came again to see another succeeding him in the same desert path, who had been flying and torturing himself in the same way as the others gone before him. 35. He fell in the same dark pit in his flight, where I stood long to witness his sad and fearful plight.