Verse 19

¹⁹Forest trees, herbs, creepers, those whose pith lies in the bark, climbing plants, and trees: their sap runs upward, they are mostly of darkness, they feel within, and each is distinct. ²⁰The eighth is the creation of animals, reckoned as of twenty-eight kinds. They do not know, they are heavy with darkness, they know by smell, and they do not perceive within the heart. ²¹The cow, the goat, the buffalo, the black antelope, the boar, the gavaya, the ruru, and the sheep and the camel as well: best of the good, these are the cloven-hoofed beasts. ²²The ass, the horse, the mule, the gaura, the sarabha and the camari: these, Ksatta, are the single-hoofed. Now hear of the animals with five nails.

²³Dog, jackal, wolf, tiger, cat, hare and porcupine; lion, monkey, elephant, tortoise, iguana, and the crocodile and the rest. ²⁴Heron, vulture, crane, hawk, bhasa, bear-bird and peacock; swan, sarasa crane, cakravaka, crow, owl and the rest are the birds. ²⁵The ninth, Ksatta, is the one whose current runs downward, and it is of one kind, that of human beings. In them passion is in excess; they are given over to work, and they take sorrow for happiness.