^209:3 Antaram; the interval between the thing being removed from its proper scene and reaching it again (Avakuri and Dipika).

^210:1 Each verse has the same form as 23, only that another colour is substituted for black. In the same way the subdivisions of smells, &c., are given. I give the first verse of each class and abbreviate the rest.

^211:1 The greatest size (ogahana) of men is 500 dhanus, or 2,000 cubits, the smallest one cubit.

^212:1 Similar details are given in the Aupapatika Sutra (ed. Leumann, section 163 f.).

^212:2 According to the commentator, who quotes scripture, it decreases an angula every Yogana.

^212:3 Compare XXXIV, 9 and note. The commentators here treat anka as a separate substance without offering any explanation. The Dipika writes sita instead of sita.

^212:4 Or 333 1/3 dhanus.

^213:1 The words translated, 'considered singly' and 'considered collectively,' are egattena and puhuttena = ekatvena and prithaktvena. Their usual meaning has been given in verse 11.

^213:2 Lavanase?

^213:3 Not in our dictionaries; the commentators only say that it is a kind of mineral, dhatuvisesha. I give the Sanskrit names of the stones, which cannot be identified with certainty, or are not contained in the index of R. Garbe's work on the Indian minerals, Leipzig, 1882.

^214:1 A medicinal earth, commonly called Kankushtha.

^214:2 The enumeration contains thirty-nine, instead of thirty-six items, as stated in verses 73 and 76.

^214:3 The meaning seems to be that souls of earth-bodies live in earth-bodies, the time stated in verse 82, while the length of each separate existence is determined in verse 81.

^216:1 Gukkha; it is explained to denote such plants from the single root or bulb of which come forth many stalks, e.g. Vrintaka, Solanum Melongena.

^216:2 Gulma, similar to the preceding class, but bringing forth twigs or stems, instead of stalks, e.g. Navamalika, Jasminum Sambac, Kanavira, &c.

^216:3 Lata, as Lotus, Pandanus, &c.

^216:4 Valli, as gourds, Piper Betel, &c.

^216:5 Trina, grass. But of the two examples given in the commentary, gunguka is not in our dictionaries, and Arguna denotes usually a tree, Terminalia Arjuna.

^216:6 Valaya; so called from their foliation.

^216:7 Parvaga, as sugar-cane.

^216:8 Kuhana, plants which cause the earth to burst, as sarpakkhatra, mushroom (toad-stool).

^216:9 Oshadhi, such plants as die after having brought forth seed, as rice, &c.

^216:10 Haritakaya, as tanduleya, &c.

^216:11 The plants in the following list are, according to the commentary, mostly bulbs, 'well known in the countries where they grow.' Many of them are not in our dictionaries. I give the Prakrit form of their names, and note the Sanskrit equivalent when it can be identified.