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crushed by horses, elephants, etc. ; they are submerged by streams of water; and are burned by forest-fires. They are pained also by water-salt-water, rice-water, etc., and when they have become salt, they are boiled in hot water. They are cooked by potters, etc., who have turned them into bricks for pots, etc.; and they are piled up in walls when they have reached the form of mud. Some are ground by grindstones by persons after they have heated them with layers of saline soil ; 489 some are split by chisels and burst by mountain-streams.
On the other hand, when they are water-bodies, they are burned by the sun's rays, congealed by frost, dried up by mud. They destroy each other from contact in sweet juices, and placed in a vessel, they are cooked thoroughly and drunk by the thirsty.
When they have become fire-bodies, they are extinguished by water, etc.; they are cut to pieces by hammers, etc.; and made to blaze by fuel, etc.
When they become air-bodies, they are beaten by fans, etc., and perish every moment from contact with objects, hot, cold, etc. All the winds, east, etc., injure each other; they are pained by the breath from the mouth, etc.; and are drunk by snakes, etc.
When they become plant-bodies of ten kinds,440 bulb, etc., they are cut, split, and cooked by fire. They are dried up, crushed, and singed by rubbing each other ; they are burned by caustics, and fastened together by consumers. In all conditions they are eaten; they are divided by storms; they are reduced to ashes by fires ; and uprooted by floods of water. All plant-lives experience constantly a series of torments from all implements, as they have become food for everyone.
480 102. I.e., smelting.
440 110. The 10 kinds of vanaspati are : (I) müla, root; (2) kanda, bulb; (3) skandha, trunk; (4) tvac, bark; (5) śākhā, branch ; (6) pravāla, sprout; (7) patra, leaf ; (8) puşpa, flower ; (9) phala, fruit ; (10) bija, seed. Sth. 773 ; Lokaprakāśa (Dravya) 5. 106 ff.
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