44. Thus resolved, Gavala prepared a pile for himself, and made an offering of his body in the burning furnace, like the poor moth dropping on fire, without betraying a sigh. 45. As Gavala cast his body (nick named as Gavala) amidst the flame, and was pulling his limbs singed by the fire; their violent motion and his painful emotion, roused the dreaming Gádhi from his reverie amidst the water. 46. Válmíki said:—As the sage was saying these things, the day departed with the setting sun to its evening devotion; the congregation broke with mutual salutations, for the performance of their evening ablutions, and assembled again with the rising sun after dispersion of the gloom of night. CHAPTER XLVII. VERIFICATION OF GÁDHI’S VISION. Argument. Gádhi learns from a guest the report of the Keri people, and goes out to inquire into the fact on the spot. Vasishtha resumed:—Gádhi was soon afterwards relieved from the perturbation of his mind at the delusions of the world; and he was set at rest from his perturbed state, like the disturbed sea after subsidence of its waves. 2. His mind being freed from its painful thoughts, regained its repose after the troublesome dream, had passed away, and he resumed his calmness, as the god Brahmá had his rest, after the labour of his creation was over at the end of the kalpa (the time of his creative will or the duration of creation). 3. He regained his senses slowly, as a man upon waking from his sleep; and as one gains his sobriety after the passing off of his ebriety. 4. He then said to himself, I am the same Gádhi and in the same function (of my sacred ablution in the water). All this is nothing that I had been seeing so long, and this I see as clearly as men see things after dispersion of the shade of night. 5. Remembering himself what he was (_i.e._ coming to himself), he lifted his feet from amidst the water (_i.e._ got out of it); as the lotus-bud lifts its head above the water, after the frost is over in spring. 6. He said again, this is the same water, sky and earth (where I stood before); but what I was just seeing, is quite astonishing to me. 7. What am I and what do I see now, and what was I and had been doing all this time? With these thoughts he remained a long time with his knitted brows and staring eyes. 8. It was my weakness, said he, that showed me this delusion; and knowing it for certain, he came out of the water, as the rising sun appears above the horizon. 9. Then rising on the bank, he said:—Ah! where is that mother and wife of mine, who attended on me at the moment of my death. 10. Or were my parents dead in the ignorant state of my boyhood, like the parent plant of a young shoot, cut off by the sword of death? 11. I am unmarried and know not the form of a wife, and am as ignorant of conjugal love, as a Bráhman is stranger to the pernicious taste of forbidden liquors.