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UTTARADHYAYANA.
182, 183 = 159, 160..
The longest duration of the life of terrestrial animals is three Palyôpamâs; the shortest is less than one muhûrta. (184)
The longest duration of the terrestrial animals' continuance in the (same kind of) body is three Palyôpamâs plus from two to nine Krores of former years; the shortest is less than one muhůrta. (185)
186 = 83.
3. Winged animals are of four kinds: those with membranous wings 1, those with feathered wings, those with wings in the shape of a box?, and those (which sit on) outspread wings 3. (187)
188, 189 = 159, 160.
The longest duration of the life of aerial animals is an Asamkhyêya-part of a Palyôpamâ; the shortest is less than one muhůrta. (190)
The longest duration (of the aerial aniinals' continuance in the same kind of body) is an Asamkhyêya-part of a Palyôpamâ plus from two to nine Krores of former years; the shortest is less than one muhûrta. (191)
192, 193 = 159, 160.
c. Men are of two kinds ; listen to my description of them: men originating by generatio aequivoca", and men born from the womb. (194)
Those who are born from the womb are of three
1 E.g. the karmakatakas or bats.
? Samudga. These interesting birds are said to live outside the Mânushôttara, or world inhabited by men.
3 The comm. do not tell us what kind of birds is intended.
• The comm. do not explain this expression; the meaning, therefore, is doubtful. I give a literal translation of it in this and the next verse.
See page 223, note 1, on verse 171.
