11. Her frame was as faint as it was reduced by long enduring fast, and it stooped lower and lower as if pressed down by hunger; it was wavering to and fro, as a body of sable clouds is driven backward and forward by the driving winds. 12. Her stature was so lean and long, that it could not stand by itself; and was supported like a skeleton, by the ligaments of the ribs, and ligatures of arteries, which uphold it fast from falling. 13. In a word her stature was so tall and towering, that it was by my diurnal journey in the upper and lower skies, that I came to see the top of her head, and the base of her feet. 14. After this I beheld her body, as a bush of tangling thickets and thistles, by the complicate ligatures of the tendons and arteries, which fastened all its members together. 15. She was wrapped in vests of various hues, and her head was decked by the luminaries belike her head-dress of lotus flowers. She was beset by the pure light of heaven, and her robe flashed as fire, enflamed by the breath of winds. 16. The lobes of her long ears, were adorned with rings of snakes, and pendents of human skulls; her kneebones were as prominent as two dried gourd shells, and her two dark dugs hung down loosely upon her breast. 17. The braid of hair on the top of her head, was adorned with feathers of male and young peacocks; and defied the crowned head of the lord of Gods (_i.e._ Indra), and the circlet of his discus (Khattánga). 18. Her moon like teeth, cast their lustre like moon beams; and it glistened amidst the dark ocean of chaotic night, as the moon beams play upon the surface, and rising waves of the dark blue deep. 19. Her long stature rose as a large tree in the sky, and her two kneepans resembled two dry gourds growing upon it; and these clattered like the rustling of a tree by the breeze, as she turned about in the air. 20. And as she danced about in the air, with her sombre arms lifted on high; they resembled the rising of the waves of dark ocean of eternity. (The words Kála and Kálí—implying both the black goddess and dark eternity). 21. Now she lifts one arm and then many more, and at last she displays her countless hands; to play her part in the playhouse of the universe. 22. Now she shows but one face and then another, and afterwards many more _ad infinitum_; in order to represent her various and infinite parts, in the vast theatre of the world. 23. Now she dances on one foot, and instantly on both her feet; she stands on a hundred legs in one moment, and on her numberless feet at another.