8. And as it is possible to a yogi, who sits secluded in one place; to see all present, past and future events at one view before him; so it is possible for a prince, sitting retired in his palace, to manage all affairs of his whole domain; and much more for the king Vipaschit, who delegated his viceroys, as members of his body to all parts. (This passage explains the quadripartite kings, to mean himself and his three viceroys on three sides). 9. So doth a cloud stretch itself to all the quarters of the sky, and perform at once the several functions of quenching the parched earth with its water, and of growing the vegetables and fructifying the trees. So also doth a man boast of his manifold acts at the same time. 10. So also are the simultaneous acts of the lord God, and those of the lords of men and yogis; who design and perform at the same time, the multifarious acts relating to the creation, preservation and management of the world. 11. So doth the one and selfsame Vishnu, with his four arms and as many forms, act many parts and separably also, as the preservation of the world on the one hand, and the enjoyment of his fair consorts on the other. 12. Again though the two hands of a person, are enough to discharge the ordinary affairs of life; yet it is requisite to have many arms, in order to wield many weapons in warfare. 13. It was in the same manner, that the self same monarch was situated with his fourfold persons, in all the four sides of the earth; where though they were impressed with the consciousness of their self identity, yet they all acted their several parts as quite distinct and apart from others. 14. They were all alike conscious of the pains and pleasures attending on their lying down on naked grounds, their passing to distant islands and their travelling to different forests and groves, and desert lands also. 15. They all remembered their journeys over hills and mountains, as well as their voyages by water and air; they knew how they floated on the seas, and rested on clouds. 16. They knew how they mounted upon waves of seas, and rode on the back of flying wind; and how they lay on the shores of seas, and at the foot of mountains. 17. Again the prince proceeding to Scythea, or the land of _sacas_ on the east; passed into the enchanted city of the yakshas, lying at the foot of the Eastern mountain or Udaya-giri; where being spellbound by their sorcery, he lay asleep for full seven years in the wood of the leafless mansá sijá trees. 18. Rising afterwards from his drowsiness, he was converted to the torpid state of a stone by his drinking some mineral water, and was condemned to remain for seven years more with the mineral substances of the earth. 19. He was then confined in a cave of the western mountain--Astáchala, which reaches to the region of the clouds and is shrouded by darkness; and he became enamoured of the company, of Pisácha and Apsara females.