Kandana, red chalk, Hamsagarbha, Pulaka , and sulphur; Kandraprabha, lapis lazuli, Galakanta, and Suryakanta . (77)

These thirty-six kinds of 'rough earth' have been enumerated. The 'subtile earth' is but of one kind, as there is no variety. (78)

The subtile species is distributed all over the world, but the gross one (is found) in a part of the world only.

I shall now give their fourfold division with regard to time. (79)

With regard to the continuous flow (or development of an earth-body) it is without a beginning and end; but with regard to its existence in its present form it has both a beginning and end. (80)

Twenty-two thousand years is the longest duration of the Earth Lives; its shortest is less than a muhurta. (81)

The longest duration of the body of Earth Lives, if they do not leave that (kind of) body , is an

immeasurable time; the shortest is less than one muhurta. (82)

The longest interval between an Earth Life's leaving its body (till its return to it), is an endless time; the shortest less than one Muhurta. (83)

Their varieties, caused by (difference of) colour, smell, taste, touch, figure, and place, are (counted) by thousands. (84)

b. The Water Lives are of two kinds: subtile and gross ones; and both of them are either fully developed or undeveloped. (85)

The gross and fully developed ones are of five kinds: pure water, dew, exudations, fog, and ice. (86)

The 'subtile water' is of one kind, as there is no variety. The subtile species is distributed all over the world, but the gross one (is found) in a part of the world only. (87)

With regard to the continuous flow, &c. (as in verse 80).

Seven thousand years is the longest duration of the life of Water Lives, &c. (as in verse 81). (All that has been said of Earth Lives in verses 82-84 is verbally repeated here of 'Water Lives.') (88-92)

g. Plants are of two kinds: subtile and gross ones; and both of them are either fully developed or undeveloped. (93)

The gross and fully developed plants are of two kinds: either many have one body in common, or each has its own body. (94)

Those who severally have their own body are of

many kinds: trees, shrubby plants , shrubs , big plants , creeping plants , grass ; (95)

Palms , plants of knotty stems or stalks , mushrooms , water-plants, annual plants , and herbs . These are called plants possessing severally their own body. (96)

Those plants of which many have one body in common are of many kinds : Aluya , Mulaya , ginger; (97)

Harili, Sirili, Sassirili, Gavai, Keyakandali , onion, garlic, plantain-tree, Kuduvvaya ; (98)

Lohinihuya, Thihuya, Tuhaga, Kanha , Vaggakanda , Suranaya ; (99)

Assakanni , Sihakanni, Musundhi, turmeric, and many others besides. (100)