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## [53 First Understanding: Description of Earth Bodies]
1. Black soil, 2. Blue soil, 3. Red soil, 4. Yellow soil, 5. White soil, 6. Pandu soil, and 7. Panka soil - these seven types of soils are Shlakshna Badar Earth. / The beings residing in them are A-Shlakshna Badar Earth-bodied beings. / The first five distinctions are clear from the difference in color. Pandu soil is that which is known as Pandu in a particular region, being in the form of soil. The commentator has interpreted Panka-Mrittika as follows - the soft mud that remains in the land after the filling up of rivers etc. and its receding, which is also called 'Jalmal', is Panka-Mrittika. The beings residing in it are also called Panka-Mrittika Shlakshna Badar Earth-bodied by convention.
Khar-Badar Earth-bodied: Khar-Badar Earth-bodied have been said to be of many types. Mainly, forty types have been mentioned in four stanzas. They are as follows: 1. Pure Earth - riverbank, wall, 2. Sugar, small pebbles etc., 3. Baluka - sand, 4. Upala - tank etc. equipment sharpening stone (for increasing the size), 5. Shila - large stone suitable for grinding, 6. Lavana - salt etc., 7. Us - alkaline soil which makes the land barren, 8. Iron, 9. Copper, 10. Ranga, 11. Sosa, 12. Silver, 13. Gold, 14. Vajra - diamond, 15. Harital, 16. Hingulu, 17. Manahshila, 18. Sasag - mercury, 19. Anjan, 20. Praval - coral, 21. Abhrapatal - mica - bhodal, 22. Abhrabbaluka - mica mixed sand, and (18 types of various kinds of gems like) 23. Gomejjaka, 24. Ruchaka, 25. Anka, 26. Sphatika, 27. Lohitaksha, 28. Marakata, 29. Bhujamochana, 30. Masaragala, 31. Indranila, 32. Chandana, 33. Gairika, 34. Hansagarbha, 35. Pulaka, 36. Saugandhika, 37. Chandra Prabha, 38. Vaidurya, 39. Jalakanta, and 40. Suryakanta. / After mentioning the 40 types of Khar-Badar Earth-bodied in this way, by saying 'Je Yavanne Thappagaara', other types like Padmaraga etc. have also been indicated. / These Badar Earth-bodied have been said to be of two types in brief: sufficient and insufficient. / The beings who have not fulfilled their own sufficient qualities, their color etc. characteristics are not clear, therefore, they cannot be described by black etc. specific colors. Color etc. appear in Badar beings only when the body etc. sufficient qualities are fulfilled. These insufficient beings die before fulfilling the sufficient quality of exhalation, therefore, the specific color etc. of these insufficient beings cannot be mentioned. / In general, color etc. appear as soon as the body sufficient quality is fulfilled. Therefore, it has been said that insufficient beings do not have specific color etc. / General color etc. are present.
1. Pudhavi Ya Sakara Valuya Ya Uvale Sila Ya Lonuse / Tamba Ya Tauya Sisa Ya Rupp Suvashne Ya Vaire Ya ||1||
Hariyale Hingulae Manoshila Sasaganjanpavale / Abh Padalam Bhavaluy Vayarakaye Mani Vihana / / 2 / /
Gomejjaye Ya Ruyaye Anke Phalihe Ya Lohitakkhae Ya / Maragay Masaramalle Bhuybhoyaga Indranile Ya // 3 //
Chandana Geshya Hanse Pulae Sogandhie Ya Bodham / Chandappabha Veruliye Jalakate Surakate Ya // 4 //
- Prajnapana, Sutra-15