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LECTURE XXXVI.
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immeasurable time; the shortest is less than one muhůrta. (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 Muhûrta. (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)
7. 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
earth-bodies, the time stated in verse 82, while the length of each separate existence is determined in verse 81.
