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SUTRAKRITÂNGA.
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down to) growing thereon (or in) the animate or inanimate bodies of manifold movable or immovable creatures as that (water)-body1, which is produced by wind, condensed by wind, and carried along by wind; it goes upwards, when there is an upward wind; it goes downwards, when there is a downward wind; it goes in a horizontal direction, when there is a horizontal wind; (its varieties are) hoar-frost, snow, mist, hailstones, dew, and rain. These beings feed on the humours of these manifold movable and immovable creatures, &c. And the bodies of these (water-lives, viz.) hoar-frost, &c., produced by manifold movable or immovable creatures, are of manifold colours, (&c., as above) 2. (30)
And again it has been said of old: some beings, born in water, (&c., all similar as in § 1, down to) come forth in water(-bodies) in the water produced by manifold movable or immovable beings. These beings feed on the humours of the water(-bodies) produced by manifold movable and immovable creatures. (The rest similar as above.) (31)
And again it has been said of old: some beings, born in water, (&c., all similar as in § 1, down to) come forth in water-bodies produced by other waterbodies. These beings feed on the humours of those other water-bodies produced by water-bodies. (The rest similar as above.) (32)
And again it has been said of old: some beings, born in water, (&c., all similar as in § 1, down to) come forth as movable creatures in the water
1 There is apparently no predicat in this sentence.
2 This paragraph gives the 'scientific' explanation of the way by which water-bodies or the bodies of water-lives are produced by wind.
