Verse 25

²⁵Their two feet washed, they ate rice with milk poured over it, and passed that night in comfort, knowing what Kamsa meant to do. ²⁶But Kamsa, hearing of the breaking of the bow, and of the killing of the guards and of his own troop, and of the whole of Govinda's and Rama's play, ²⁷was afraid and lay long awake, and, dull-minded as he was, he saw many bad signs, in waking and in sleep alike, signs that go before death as its messengers: ²⁸he could not see his own head, though the reflection was there; he saw the lights of the sky doubled, though there was no second one; ²⁹he saw a hole in his shadow; he could not hear the sound of his own breath; the trees looked golden to him; and he did not see his own footprints.

³⁰In dreams, an embrace by a ghost, a ride on a donkey, the drinking of poison; and one man going along garlanded with nard, smeared with oil, and naked. ³¹Seeing these and other such things, waking and dreaming, he was terrified of dying, and for thinking of it he could not sleep.