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coral, Abhrapatala, Abhravâluka; these are varieties of gross (Earth-) bodies and kinds of precious stones. (75)
Hyacinth, natron, Anka, crystal, Lôhitaksha, emerald, Masâragalla, Bhugamôkaka, and sapphire ; (76)
Kandana, red chalk, Hamsagarbha, Pulaka ', and sulphur; Kandraprabha, lapis lazuli, Galakânta, and Sûryakânta ? (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 muhûrta. (81)
The longest duration of the body of Earth Lives, if they do not leave that (kind of) body 3, is an
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.
1 A medicinal earth, commonly called Kankushtha.
2 The enumeration contains thirty-nine, instead of thirty-six items, as stated in verses 73 and 76.
3 The meaning seems to be that souls of earth-bodies live in
