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BOOK 2, LECTURE 3.
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Khôras, Gharakôillas ?, Vissambharas ?, rats, mangooses, Païlâiyas, cats, Gôhas, Kauppâiyas 3. (The rest as in the last paragraph.) (25)
(This paragraph treats of) aerial animals with five organs of sense : birds with membranous wings, birds with feathered wings, birds with wings in the shape of a box, and birds (which sit on) outspread wings 4. (All as before; only the following passage is different): “As long as they are young, they are hatched by their mothers' warmth. (The rest as above.) (26)
And again it has been said of old: there are beings of manifold birth and origin, (&c., all as in § 1, down to) growing there on the animate or inanimate bodies of manifold movable or immovable creatures, come forth as parasites“. These beings feed on the humours of various movable and immovable creatures, &c. And the bodies of these movable and immovable parasites are of manifold colours, (&c., as above). (27)
In the same way vermin generated in filthy substances o and in the skin of living animals ? are to be treated of. (28, 29)
And again it has been said of old : there are some beings of manifold birth and origin, (&c., all as in g 1,
i Grihakôkila, probably identical with griha gôlika, a lizard.
2 Visvambhara is given in the smaller Petersburg Dictionary as the name of a scorpion or some similar animal. However, it must denote here some other animal.
3 This may be katushpâ dika, quadruped; but then the word must be taken in a restricted sense, perhaps, small quadrupeds.
4 See Uttarâdhyayana XXXVI, 187; above, p. 224. Perhaps beetles and butterflies are intended by the two last kinds of pakshins?
6 Anus ûya=anusûta or a nusyûta. 6 Durûvasambhava.
? Khuruduga.
