We have, indeed, beheld celestials and Gandharvas, and Nagas, and Rakshasas, and men, but never saw we before any one like Nala.

Then countless celestials together with the sages went to Brahma, who was seated burning as it were in his (own) lustre.

And, O exalted celestials, seeing me, they were filled with wonder.

Choose thou the all-excelling celestials.

O light celestial, streaming wide Through morning'd court of fairy blue O tints of beauty, beams of pride, That break around its varied hue Still to thy wonted pathway true,

O'er the grey matted moss, and pansied sod, With step sublime the glowing Goddess trod, Gilt with her beamy eye the conscious shade, And with her smile celestial bless'd the maid.

There was not one in the whole set of Grecian deities half so moral and pure, in sentiment and conduct, as Socrates; nor were Jupiter and his subordinate celestials better than the average kings and courts of Greece.

Hearken, ye celestials, to the reason to which all this commotion is owing!