26. Then at the end of his life time, this Indra of unblemished reputation, forsook his mortal frame, and became extinct in his _nirvána_ dissolution, as when a lamp is extinguished for want of oil. 27. Kunda reigned over the three worlds (of and like his father), and then having given birth to a boy he departed to his ultimate state of bliss, after expiration of the term of his life. 28. That son also reigned in his time (like the sire), and then departed at the end of his life time, to the holy state of supreme felicity, by leaving a son after him. 29. In this manner a thousand generations of the grandsons of the first Indra, have reigned and passed away in their time; and there is still a prince by name of Ansaka, reigning over the state of the lord of gods. 30. Thus the generations of the lord of immortals, still hold their sovereignty over the imaginary world of Indra; in that sacred particle of sunbeam in empty air, although that atomic particle is continually going to decay and waste in this long course of time (yet the imagination of its existence has laid a firm hold on the minds of their posterity for ever). CHAPTER XIV. STORY OF INDRÁNÍ; AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE IDENTITY OF THE ACTS OF CREATION AND IMAGINATION. Argument:—Origin of Sakra race and of the World like the fibres of Lotus-stalks and its spiritual sense. Bhusunda continued:—There was one prince born of the race of that Indra; who had also become the lord of gods; He was endowed with prosperity and all good qualities, and devoted to divine knowledge. 2. This prince of Indra’s race, received his divine knowledge from the oral instruction of Vrihaspati (the preceptor of the gods). 3. He knowing the knowable-one, persisted in the course of knowledge as he was taught and being the sovereign lord of gods, he reigned over all the three worlds. 4. He fought against the demigods, and conquered all his foes; he made a hundred sacrifices, and got over the darkness of ignorance by his enlightened mind. 5. He remained long in meditation, having his mind fixed in his cerebral artery, resembling the thread of a tubular stalk of the lotus, and continued to reflect on hundreds of many others matters. (_i.e._ On the imaginary world and its kingdom and conquests together with many other things). 6. He had once the desire of knowing by the power of his understanding, how he could see the essence of Brahma in his meditation (or how he could have a sight of the nature of God, manifest before him. Gloss). 7. He sat in his solitary retirement, and saw in this silent meditation of his tranquil mind, the disappearance of the concatenation of causes all about and inside himself. 8. He beheld the omnipotent Brahma, as extended in and about all things; and presenting all times and places and existing as all in all, and pervading all things in all places.