11. From the great anxiety of his mind, he suppressed the respiration of his breath; until he breathed out his last breath of life in the air, and his body dropped down as a carcass in the nether earth. 12. His mind accompanied with his vital breath, fled through the air into the body of Sindhu, who became the ruler of the whole earth, and the great antagonist of Vidúratha. 13. His great body resembling a hundred mountainous ranges, became a huge mass of carcass; which fell down with the hideous clattering of thunders, as one earth falling upon another. 14. At a certain time, it shines as a _Kesandraka_, at others it appears as a covering of the huge range of buildings in sky. 15. I have already related to thee, O learned sir, how this huge carcass had fallen from above, and filled the surface of the globe of this earth. 16. The globe of the earth, where upon this huge carcass had fallen, resembled in every way this earth of ours, which appears unto us as a city in our dream. 17. The dry and big bellied goddess _chandí_, then devoured this carcass, filling her bowels with its flesh, and stuffing her entrails with its red hot blood. 18. The earth is called _mediní_ or fleshy from the flesh of this corpse, which overspreads its surface with its prodigious bulky frame. 19. It was this huge fleshy body, which was reduced to the substance of the earth in time; and had the name of the earth given to it from the dust of this body. 20. This fleshy earth gave rise to forests and habitable parts; and the fossil bones rose high in the forms of mountains from underneath the ground, which grew everything useful to men. CHAPTER CLVIX. WANDERING OF VIPASCHIT. Argument:--The god of fire, after directing Vipaschit to wander over the world according to his desire, disappeared from his sight. The god of fire added:--Go now O sapient Vipaschit, to your wished for abodes, and with the steadiness of your mind, conduct with propriety every where on earth. 2. Indra the lord of the assemblage of creatures, has been performing his hundred fold sacrifices in his celestial abode; and there I am invited to attend by an invocation of him. 3. Bhása said:--Saying so, the lord Agni disappeared from that place; and passed through the transparent ether like the electric fire of lightning. 4. I was then led by my predestination to roam about in the air; and direct my mind into the investigation of my allotted acts, and the termination of my ignorance. 5. I beheld again an innumerable host of heavenly bodies, roving about in the air; holding their positions at different stations of the firmament, and containing inhabitants of different natures and customs. 6. Some of these were of one and same form, resembling floating umbrellas in the sky; and attracting the hearts of men, by their shining appearance and slow motion. (The great velocity of heavenly bodies, appear to be slow when they are seen by the naked eyes of men from this distant earth).