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BOOK 2, LECTURE 3.
397 produced by water-bodies. These beings feed on the humours of the water(-bodies) produced by water. (The rest similar as before.) (33)
And again it has been said of old: some beings, of various birth and origin, (&c., all as in § 1, down to) come forth as fire-bodies in the manifold animate or inanimate bodies of movable or immovable creatures. These beings feed on the manifold movable or immovable creatures. (The rest similar as before.)
The remaining three paragraphs are similar (to those treating of) water-bodies. (34)
(This paragraph treats of wind-bodies in the same way as the preceding ones treated of fire-bodies; like it, it consists of four paragraphs). (35)
And again it has been said of old : some beings, of various birth and origin, (&c., all as in § 1, down to) come forth, in the manifold animate and inanimate bodies of movable and immovable creatures?, as earth, gravel, &c. Here the following verses (from the Uttarâdhyayana XXXVI, 74-77) are to be made use of:
1. Earth, gravel, sand, stones, rocks, rock-salt, iron, copper, tin, lead, silver, gold, and diamond;
2. Orpiment, vermilion, realgar, Sâsaka, antimony, coral, Abhrapatala, Abhravâluka ; these are varieties of gross (earth-)bodies, and precious stones.
E.g. when two bulls or elephants rush upon one another, sparks of fire are seen issuing from their horns or teeth. Fire is produced when two pieces of wood or stone are rubbed one against the other.
? According to the commentators, earth-bodies are produced in the shape of precious stones, in the head of snakes, of pearls in the teeth (sic) of elephants, and so in reeds, &c.
