The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus c8.t2.15

c8.t2.15

The *Pâdinas*, aquatic animals having pedal (or long dorsal) appendages, comprise *kurmas* (oval or oblong-shaped tortoises, turtles), the *kumbhîras* (crocodiles, Emydosauria, Reptilia), *karkatas* (white and black crabs, Crustacea), the *śiśumâra* (a species of the Delphinidæ cetacea), muscular, with a sharp protruding snout, breathing with the blow-hole *out of the water*, probably a dolphin, as the long dorsal fin was taken for a sort of pedal appendage (दृढाकारोऽश्वकः वहिर्निश्वासं मुञ्चति सोऽपि द्विविधः वर्त्तुलदीर्घभेदतः—Dalvana). The *Pâdinas* do not represent any natural division.