Uttarajjhayana 211.22.p1.82_2

211.22.p1.82_2

asaṃkhakālam ukkosaṃ | antomuhuttaṃ jahannayaṃ /
kāyaṭhiī puḍhavīṇaṃ | taṃ kāyaṃ tu amuṃcao ||82||

The longest duration of the body of Earth Lives, if they do not leave that (kind of) body, is an immeasurable time; the shortest is less than one muhûrta. (82)
The longest interval between an Earth Life's leaving its body (till its return to it), is an endless time; the shortest less than one Muhûrta. (83)
Their varieties, caused by (difference of) colour, smell, taste, touch, figure, and place, are (counted) by thousands. (84)
β. The Water Lives are of two kinds: subtile and gross ones; and both of them are either fully developed or undeveloped. (85)
The gross and fully developed ones are of five kinds: pure water, dew, exudations, fog, and ice. (86)
The 'subtile water' is of one kind, as there is no variety. The subtile species is distributed all over the world, but the gross one (is found) in a part of the world only. (87)
With regard to the continuous flow, &c. (as in verse 80).
Seven thousand years is the longest duration of the life of Water Lives, &c. (as in verse 81). (All that has been said of Earth Lives in verses 82-84 is verbally repeated here of 'Water Lives.') (88-92)
γ. Plants are of two kinds: subtile and gross ones; and both of them are either fully developed or undeveloped. (93)
The gross and fully developed plants are of two kinds: either many have one body in common, or each has its own body. (94)
Those who severally have their own body are of many kinds: trees, shrubby plants, shrubs, big plants, creeping plants, grass; (95)