Skanda Purana 7.5.36_204

7.5.36_204

saptamācca vinirmuktaḥ24 kṛmikīṭeṣu jāyate .
koṭītrayaṃ tāvadeva vṛkṣatvamadhigacchati25 ..8.50.2 0 . .
tato latā tato gulmastato hastī prajāyate26 .
gotvaṃ ca samanuprāpya jāyate mānuṣastataḥ ..2 1 . .

Freed from the seventh, he is born among worms and insects
for thirty million [births], and for just as long he enters the state of a tree;
then a creeper, then a shrub; then an elephant is born;
and fully attaining the state of cattle, he is then born human.