Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
## First Understanding: Description of Aquatic Creatures
**All living beings in the world, whether they are in the realm of the liberated or the bound, in the four directions, in the skies, among humans, in the realms of karma, not in the realms of no karma, in the inter-islands, in the realm of countless lifetimes, or in the realm of countless lifetimes, even in the realm of gods, up to the realm of the gods of the four directions, the two directions, and the realm of countless lifetimes, are all described as such.**
**What are aquatic creatures? Aquatic creatures are said to be of five types: fish, tortoise, crocodile, snake, and dolphin (sunsumar). What are fish? Fish are of many types, etc. This should be known according to the description of the knowledge. In this way, other types of fish, etc., all these aquatic creatures are five-sense, non-human, living beings, in short, they are of two types: sufficient and insufficient.**
**O Lord! How many bodies are said to be of these beings? Gautama! Three bodies are said to be: Audarik, Tejas, and Karman.**
**Their body's size is from the smallest, an immeasurable part of a finger, to the largest, a thousand yojanas.**
**They are those who endure service, have a body like a lump, have four passions, four types of consciousness, and five types of karma. They have five senses and three types of death.**
**They are not conscious, they are unconscious. They are eunuchs with knowledge. They have five sufficiencies and five insufficiencies. They have two types of vision, two types of perception, two types of knowledge, two types of ignorance, two types of yoga, two types of use, and their food is the six directions of dust particles.**
**They are born from non-human and human beings, not from gods and hell beings. Even among non-humans, those with countless years of life are not born among them. Humans with countless years of life in the realm of no karma and in the inter-islands are also not born among them. Their lifespan is from the smallest, an instant, to the largest, a previous kalpa.**
**They die both with and without the death-causing karma.**
**O Lord! Where are these five-sense aquatic creatures born after death? Gautama! They are born in hell, among non-humans, among humans, and among gods. If they are born in hell, they are born only up to the Ratnaprabha hell, not in the other hells. If they are born among non-humans, they are born among all non-humans, both those with a countable lifespan and those with an uncountable lifespan, both among four-legged creatures and birds.**
**If they are born among humans, they are born among all humans in the realm of karma, not among humans in the realm of no karma. They are also born among those with a countable lifespan and those with an uncountable lifespan in the inter-islands.**