Verse 5

⁵This creature called a man, walking on the earth, who is of the earth: lord of the earth, on what ground? And of him too there are the feet, and above them the ankles, shanks, knees, thighs, waist, chest, neck and shoulders, ⁶and on the shoulder the wooden palanquin, and in it the one who goes by the name king of Sauvira; and in him you have grown a notion of yourself, blind with a bad pride, saying, I am king over the Sindhus. ⁷These men here are pitiful and worn down and poor, and you hold them under forced work: there is no kindness in you. Boasting that you are the guard of your people, you make no fine show among assemblies of elders, being brazen.

⁸Since we know that it is on the earth alone that what moves and what does not moves ends and rises, and always so, let something be pointed out that is other than earth by name, a root of dealing that can be worked out from true action. ⁹So the use of the word earth is explained away, for there is nothing standing there: the atoms are things the mind puts together out of ignorance, and a particular thing is made by heaping them. ¹⁰So too with thin and thick, small and large, what is not and what is, the living and the other; know that a second thing has been made by unknowing, under the names of substance, own nature, stored leaning, time and work.