'By black and spotted wild dogs I have, ever so many times, been thrown down, torn to pieces, and lacerated, screaming and writhing. (54)

'When I was born in hell for my sins, I was cut, pierced, and hacked to pieces with swords and daggers, with darts and javelins. (55)

'I have been forcibly yoked to a car of red-hot iron full of fuel , I have been driven on with a goad

and thongs, and have been knocked down like an antelope . (56)

'On piles, in a blazing fire, I have forcibly been burnt and roasted like a buffalo, in atonement for my sins. (57)

'An infinite number of times have I violently been lacerated by birds whose bills were of iron and shaped like tongs, by devilish vultures . (58)

'Suffering from thirst I ran towards the river Vaitarani to drink its water, but in it I was killed (as it were) by blades of razors . (59)

'When suffering from the heat, I went into the forest in which the trees have a foliage of daggers; I have, ever so many times, been cut to pieces by the dropping dagger-leaves. (60)

'An infinite number of times have I suffered hopelessly from mallets and knives, forks and maces, which broke my limbs. (61)

'Ever so many times have I been slit, cut, mangled, and skinned with keen-edged razors, knives, and shears. (62)

'As an antelope I have, against my will, been

caught, bound, and fastened in snares and traps, and frequently I have been killed. (63)

'As a fish I have, against my will, been caught with hooks and in bow-nets; I have therein been scraped, slit, and killed, an infinite number of times. (64)

'As a bird I have been caught by hawks, trapped in nets, and bound with bird-lime, and I have been killed, an infinite number of times. (65)

'As a tree I have been felled, slit, sawn into planks, and stripped of the bark by carpenters with axes , hatchets, &c., an infinite number of times. (66)

'As iron I have been malleated, cut, torn, and filed by blacksmiths , an infinite number of times. (67)

'I have been made to drink hissing molten copper, iron, tin, and lead under horrid shrieks, an infinite number of times. (68)

'You like meat minced or roasted; I have been made to eat, ever so many times, poisoned meat, and red-hot to boot. (69)

'You like wine, liquor, spirits, and honey ; I have been made to drink burning fat and blood. (70)

'Always frightened, trembling, distressed, and suffering, I have experienced the most exquisite pain and misery. (71)

'I have experienced in hell sharp, acute and

severe, horrible, intolerable, dreadful, and formidable pain. (72)

'O father, infinitely more painful is the suffering in hell than any suffering in the world of men. (73)