Verse 12

¹²How long an age lasts, and a lesser age; how time is reckoned; the words for what has been and what will be and what is; and the span of life allotted to a thing that exists; ¹³the going of time as it can be marked out, in the small and in the great as well; how many the ways of works are, best of the twice-born, and of what kinds; ¹⁴in what the mass of works gathers, and how and by what it is taken up, for the strands and for those who carry the strands, who are after their own turning; ¹⁵how earth comes to be, and the world below, the quarters and the sky, planets and stars and mountains, rivers and seas and islands, and those who live in them;

¹⁶the measure of the shell of the egg, taken as outside and inside; the doings of the great; and the settling of class and of the stages of life; ¹⁷the ages, and the measure of an age, and what dharma belongs to each age; and the doings of Hari's descents, which are the most wonderful of all; ¹⁸the duty men hold in common and the duty that is each one's own, and what they are like; the duty of the guilds and of the royal sages, and of those who live in hard straits;