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LECTURE XXXVI.
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ratio aequivoca', and those which are born from the womb. (171)
Either of them are again of three kinds: 1. aquatic, 2. terrestrial, and 3. aerial animals. Learn from me their subdivision. (172)
1. Fishes, tortoises, crocodiles, Makaras, and Gangetic porpoises are the five kinds of aquatic animals. (173)
174, 175 = 159, 160.
The longest duration of the life of aquatic animals is one Krore of former years ? ; the shortest is less than one muhûrta. (176)
The longest duration of the aquatic animals' continuance in the (same kind of body) is from two to nine 3 Krores of former years. (177)
178= 83.
2. Quadrupeds and reptiles are the two kinds of terrestrial animals. The quadrupeds are of four kinds; listen to my description of them : (179)
(1) Solidungular animals, as horses, &c.; (2) Biungular animals, as cows, &c.; (3) Multiungular animals, as elephants, &c.;
(4) Animals having toes with nails, as lions, &c. (180)
The reptiles are of two kinds : 1. those which walk on their arms, as lizards, &c., and 2. those which move on their breast, as snakes, &c. Both are again of many kinds. (181)
Sammůrkhima. They grow by assimilating the materials in their surrounding. According to a second explanation, their internal organ does not fully develop.
* See page 16, note 1.
3 This is, according to the Avakūri, the meaning of puhuttam prithaktvam.
