3. He only beheld his body, lying as a skeleton before him, as it was wretchedness or poverty personified in that shape. 4. The skin of his body was dried by the sun, and his nostrils snoring as a hooping bird; and the inner entrails of his belly, were sounding as dry leather-pipes with the croaking of frogs. 5. The sockets of his eyes, were filled with new-born worms grown in them; and the bones of his ribs had become as bars of a cage, with the thin skin over them resembling the spider’s web. 6. The dry and white skeleton of the body, resembled the desire of fruition, which bends it to the earth, to undergo all the favourable and unfavourable accidents of life. 7. The crown of the head had become as white and smooth (by its baldness or grey hairs), as the phallus of Siva anointed with camphor, at the _Indu-varcha_ ceremony in honor of the moon. 8. The withered head erected on the bony neckbone, likened the soul supported by the body:—(either to lead or be led by it). 9. The nose was shriveled to a dry stalk, for want of its flesh; and the nose-bone stood as a post, dividing the two halves of the face. 10. The face standing erect on the protruded shoulders on both sides, was looking forward in the womb of the vacuous sky, whither the vital breath had fled from the body. 11. The two legs, thighs, knees and the two arms (forming the eight _angas_ or members of the body), had been doubled in their length (for their long etherial course); and lay slackened with fatigue of the long journey. 12. The leanness of the belly like a _lath_, showed by its shriveled flesh and skin, the empty inside of the ignorant: (_i.e._ they may be puffed up with pride on the outside, but are all hollow in the inside). 13. Bhrigu seeing the withered skeleton of his son, lying as the worn-out post (to which the elephant was tied by its feet), made his reflections as said before, and rose from his seat. 14. He then began to dubitate in his mind, at the sight of the dead body, as to whether it could be the lifeless carcass of his son or any other. 15. Thinking it no other than the dead body of his son, he became sore angry upon the god of death (that had untimely taken him away). 16. He was prepared to pronounce his imprecation against the god of fate, in vengeance of his snatching his son so prematurely from him. 17. At this _Yama_—the regent of death, and devourer of living beings, assumed his figurative form of a material body, and appeared in an instant before the enraged father. 18. He appeared in armour with six arms and as many faces, accompanied by the army of his adherents, and holding the noose and sword and other weapons in his hands. (The commentary ascribes a dozen of arms to _Yama_, by the number of the twelve months of the year, and having half of the number on either side, according to the six signs of the zodiac in either hemisphere. The six faces are representative of the six seasons of Hindu astronomy instead of four of other nations).