57. In short, there is no place which I have not seen, nor any side (of the compass) where I have not been; there is no act or event which I have not known, and in a word there is nothing unknown to me, that is unknown to the knower of all. (The soul that becomes one with Omniscient soul, becomes all-knowing like the same). 58. I remember to have heard the jingling sound of the armlets of Indra, which resembled the noise of the rattling clouds on high; or likened the jangling jar of the gems, which glistened on the peaks of the Mandara mountain, in its trepidation of churning the milky ocean. CHAPTER CXXXII. BHÁSA’S RELATION OF THE TRANSMIGRATIONS OF HIS SOUL. Argument:--Bhása relates his repeated births, the wonders he has seen, and the vanity of the world. Bhása continued:--It was once at the foot of the Mandara mountain, that I dwelt as a siddha under the shady bower of Mandára trees; and had been sleeping in the sweet embrace of an Apsara, Mandará by name; when it happened, that the current of a river bore us both away, as it carries down a straw in its course. 2. I supported my partner now floating on the water, and asked her to tell me how could it happen to be so; when she with her tremulous eyes answered me thus, saying:-- 3. Here it occurs at the full moon, that this mountain which is sacred to the moon, gives rise to its outlets, which then rush out as rapidly, as ladies run to meet their consorts at the rising of the moon. 4. It was owing to my rapture in your company, that I forgot to tell you of this; saying so she lifted me up, and fled with me into the air, as a female bird mounts into the sky with her young. 5. I was to the top of that mountain, where I remained seven years, with my dried and unsoiled body, as a bee remains unsullied on the pericarp of a lotus flower growing in the bed of the Ganges. 6. I thence saw some other worlds beyond the starry circle, which were encircled by one another like the coatings of a plantain tree. They were bright by their own light, and were peopled by luminous bodies. 7. There were no distinctions of directions nor divisions of daytime (for want of the sun); there <were> no sástras or rules of conduct, nor vedas for religious guidance; there was no difference of the gods and demigods, but the whole was bright with its own light. 8. I was next born as a Vidyádhara, and lived for twice seven years as an ascetic under the name of Amarasoma, dwelling in the grove of kadamba trees, at the foot of a cloud-capt mountain, which was frequented by aerial cars of the celestials, for their pleasure, the sport and diversion. 9. Then I was borne with the velocity of winds, afar amidst the etherial regions on high; whence I beheld numberless elephants and horses, lions and deer, and woods and forests filled with beasts and birds, all moving along in the form of clouds beneath.