26. Somewhere I saw the assemblage of righteous men, with their manners and conduct as those of the pure golden age; and elsewhere I beheld the company of unrighteous people, following the practices and usages of the corrupt iron age. 27. I saw the forts and cities of the demons in certain places, with fierce and continuous warfares going on all along among them. 28. I saw vast mountainous tracts, without a pit or pool in them any where; and I beheld elsewhere the unfinished creation of the lotus-born Brahmá. 29. I saw some lands where men were free from death and decay; and others with moonless nights and bare headed Sivas in them. (The moon being the coronet of Siva’s head, it must be bare for want of the moon on it). 30. I saw the milky ocean unchurned, and filled with the dead bodies of gods; and the marine horse and elephant, the _Kámadhenu_ cow, the physician Dhanvantari and the goddess Laxmí; together with the submarine poison and ambrosia, all lying hidden and buried therein. 31. I saw in one place the body of gods, assembled to baffle the attempts of the giants and the devices of their leader Sukra; and the great god Indra in another, entering into the womb of Deity—the mother of demons, and destroying the unborn brood therein. 32. It was on account of the unfading virtue (or unalterable course) of nature, that the world was brilliant as ever before; unless that somethings were placed out of their former order. 33. The ever lasting vedas ever retain their same force and sense, and never did they feel the shock of change, by the revolution of ages or even at the _kalpánta_ dissolution of the world. 34. Sometimes the demons have despoiled, some parts of the heavenly abodes of gods; and sometimes the paradise of Eden (udyána), resounded with the songs of Gandharvas and Kinnaras. (Hence some part of the Himálayas, is said to have been the site of the garden of paradise). 35. Sometimes an amity was formed between the gods and giants, and I saw in this manner, the past, present, and future commotions of the world. 36. I then beheld in the person of the great soul of worlds, (_i.e._ in the face of nature which is the body of God); the meeting of the Pushkara and Avarta clouds together. 37. There was an assemblage of all created things, in peaceful union with one another in one place; and there was a joint concussion, of the gods, and demigods and sovereigns of men, in the one and same person. 38. There was the union of the sunlight and deep darkness in the same place, without their destroying one another; and there were the dark clouds, and their flashing lightnings also in the very place. 39. There were the demons Madhu and Kaitabha, residing together in the same navel-string of Brahmá; and there were the infant Brahmá and the lotus bud in the same navel of Vishnu.