9. All worldly desires lead to erroneous expectations, and those that are entangled in the snares of their expectations, are thereby reduced to the meanness of their spirits. 10. Falling into the errors of egotism and selfishness, they were led to the blunder of _mei tatem_ or thinking these things as mine; just as a man mistakes a rope for a snake. 11. Being reduced to the depravity of selfishness, they began to think their personalities to consist in their bodies, and to reflect how their bodies from the head to foot could be safe and secure from harm. 12. They lost their patience by continually thinking on the stability of their bodies, and their properties and pleasures of life. (_i.e._ The eager desire of worldly gain and good, grows into impatience at last). 13. Desire of their enjoyments, diminished their strength and valour; and their former acts of gallantry now became a dead letter to them. 14. They thought only how to become lords of the earth, and thus became lazy and enervated, as lotus-flowers without water. (As the thought of grandeur enervated the Romans to impotence). 15. Their pride and egoism led their inclination to the pleasures of good eating and drinking, and to the possession of every worldly good. (Luxury is the bane of valour). 16. They began to hesitate in joining the warfare, and became as timid as the timorous deer, to encounter the furious elephants in their ravages of the forest. 17. They moved slowly in despair of their victory, and for fear of losing their lives, in their encounter with the furious elephants (of the gods) in the field. 18. These cowards wishing to preserve their bodies from the hands of death, became as powerless as to rest satisfied with having the feet of their enemies set up on their heads. (_i.e._ They fell at the feet of their foes to spare their lives; (as they say; that cowards die many times before their death)). 19. Thus these enervated demons, were as disabled to kill the enemy standing before them; as the fire is unable to consume the sacred _ghee_ offering, when it is not kindled by its fuel. 20. They became as gnats before the aggressive gods, and stood with their bruised bodies like beaten soldiers. 21. What needs saying more, than that the demons being overpowered by the gods, fled away from the field of battle for fear of their lives. 22. When the demons Dáma, Vyála, Kata and others, who were renounced before the gods in their prowess, fled cowardly in different ways:— 23. The force of the Daityas, fell before the deities, and fled from the air on all sides, like the falling stars of heaven, at the end of a kalpa age or last day (of judgment). 24. They fell upon the summits of mountains, and in the arbours of the Sumeru range; some were enwrapt in the folds of the clouds above, and others fell on the banks of distant seas below.