Manava Dharmashastra 1.45

1.45

svedaḥ pārthivānāṃ dravyāṇāmagnyādityāditāpasaṃbandhādantaḥ kledastato jāyate daṃśamaśakādi | anyadapi yadīdṛśamatyantasūkṣmaṃ puttikāpipolikādi yadūṣmaṇa upajāyate | ‘ūṣmā’ sveda eva, taddheturvā tāpaḥ | ‘upajāyante’ iti pāṭhe ‘ye cānye kecidīdṛśā’ iti paṭhitavyam |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
‘Crocodiles’—includes the Porpoise and the rest;—‘Kacchapāḥ’ are the Tortoises;—‘other animals of similar kinds’—i.e., wizards (lizards?) and the like, which are ‘terrestrial,’ born on land, and such others of similar kinds as are ‘aquatic’ born in water; such, for instance, as conches and the rest.—(44)