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UTTARÂDHYAYANA.
The subtile Fire Lives are but of one kind, as there is no variety. (111) · The subtile species, &c. (see verses 79-84. Substitute Fire Lives for Earth Lives. In verses 114 f., corresponding to verses 81, 89, and 103, read : the longest duration of the life of Fire Lives is three days,' &c. ; the rest as above). (112–117)
B. The Wind Lives are of two kinds, &c. (as in verse 109). (118)
The gross and fully developed ones are of five kinds : squalls 1, whirlwinds ?, thick winds ?, high winds, low winds; (119)
And the Samvartaka - wind, &c.; thus they are of many kinds 6.
The subtile Wind Lives are but of one kind, as there is no variety. (120)
The subtile species, &c. (as above 79-84. Substitute Wind Lives for Earth Lives. In verse 123, corresponding to 114, read: the longest duration of the life of Wind Lives is three thousand years ;' the rest as above). (121–126)
? Utkalikâ, intermittent winds. Mandalikâ= vâtôlî.
3 According to the comm. these winds blow on the oceans which are situated below.the Ratnaprabhâ-hell, or which support the heavenly Vimânas, and have the density of snow. Perhaps the notion is similar to that of the Hindu astronomers, who fancied that the heavenly bodies were set in motion by cords of wind called pravaha. See Sürya Siddhânta II, 3.
• This seems to be the hurricane which causes the periodical destruction of the world. But Dêvêndra says: 'Samvartaka is a wind which carries grass, &c., from the outside into a particular
place.'
o Though in the preceding verse it was said that there are five kinds of wind, six are enumerated, and more are implied by the '&c.'
