50. When the mind receives the light of truth, it is called the enlightened intellect, which being freed from its thoughts relating to the body, is set to its supreme felicity. 51. Thus the mind of your son, wandered from your presence, as you sat absorbed in meditation, to regions far and wide in the ways of its various desires. (_i.e._ His body was before thee, but his mind was led afar by its inward desires). 52. He having left this body of his behind him, in the mountain cave of Mandara, fled to the celestial region, as a bird flies from his nest to the open air. 53. This mind got into the city of the tutelar gods, and remained in a part of the garden of Eden (Nandana), in the happy groves of Mandara, and under the bower of _párijáta_ flowers. 54. There he thought he passed a revolution of eight cycles of the four _yugas_, in company with _Viswáchí_ a beauteous Apsara damsel, unto whom he clung as the hexaped bee clings to the blooming lotus. 55. But as his strong desire led him to the happy regions of his imagination, so he had his fall from them at the end of his desert, like the nightly dew falling from heaven. 56. He faded away in his body and all his limbs, like a flower attached to the ear or head ornament; and fell down together with his beloved one, like the ripened fruits of trees. 57. Being bereft of his aerial and celestial body, he passed through the atmospheric air, and was born again on earth in a human figure. 58. He had become a Bráhman in the land of Dasárná, and then a king of the city of Kosala. He became a hunter in a great forest, and then a swan on the bank of Ganges. 59. He became a king of the solar race, and then a rája of the Pundras, and afterwards a missionary among the Sauras and Sálwas. He next became a Vidyádhara, and lastly the son of a sage or _muni_. 60. He had become a ruler in Madras, and then the son of a devotee, bearing the name of Vásudeva, and living on the bank of Samangá. 61. Your son has also passed many other births, which he was led to by his desire; and he had likewise to undergo some _itara-janma_ heterogeneous births in lower animals. 62. He had repeatedly been a Kiráta—huntsman in the Vindhyá hills and at Kaikatav. He was a chieftain in Sauvíra, and had become an ass at Trigarta. 63. He grew as a bamboo tree in the land of Keralas, and as a deer in the skirts of China. He became a serpent on a palm tree, and a cock on the tamála tree. 64. This son of yours had been skilled in incantations—mantras, and propagated them in the land of Vidyádharas. (So called from their skill in enchantments). 65. Then he became a Vidyádhara (Jadugar) or magician himself; and plied his jugglery of abstracting ornaments from the persons of females. 66. He became a favourite of females, as the sun is dear to lotus-flowers; and being as handsome as Káma (Cupid) in his person, he become a favourite amongst Vidyádhara damsels in the land of Gandharvas.