Uttarajjhayana 211.22.p1.71_2

211.22.p1.71_2

duvihā puḍhavījīvā ya | suhumā bāyarā tahā /
pajjattamapajjattā | evamee duhā puṇo ||71||

α. The Earth Lives are of two kinds: subtile and gross; and both of them are either fully developed or undeveloped. (71)
The gross and fully developed are of two kinds: viz. smooth or rough. The smooth ones are of seven kinds: (72)
Black, blue, red, yellow, white, pale dust, and clay.
The rough ones are of thirty-six kinds: (73)
Earth, gravel, sand, stones, rocks, rock-salt, iron, copper, tin, lead, silver, gold, and diamond; (74)
Orpiment, vermilion, realgar, Sâsaka, antimony, coral, Abhrapatala, Abhravâluka; these are varieties of gross (Earth-) bodies and kinds of precious stones. (75)
Hyacinth, natron, Aṅka, crystal, Lôhitâksha, emerald, Masâragalla, Bhugamôkaka, and sapphire; (76)
Kandana, red chalk, Hamsagarbha, Pulaka, and sulphur; Kandraprabha, lapis lazuli, Galakânta, and Sûryakânta. (77)
These thirty-six kinds of 'rough earth' have been enumerated. The 'subtile earth' is but of one kind, as there is no variety. (78)
The subtile species is distributed all over the world, but the gross one (is found) in a part of the world only.
I shall now give their fourfold division with regard to time. (79)
With regard to the continuous flow (or development of an earth-body) it is without a beginning and end; but with regard to its existence in its present form it has both a beginning and end. (80)
Twenty-two thousand years is the longest duration of the Earth Lives; its shortest is less than a muhûrta. (81)