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Anantakāya 1, 2, 13, 18, 19, 20 · what grows below the soil

The roots

कन्द

Whatever roots below the soil and grows again from a piece: the verses name the elephant-foot yam and the vajra yam first, then the carrot and three sedge-tubers, and the recitation adds a heading over them all, savva kanda-jāi.

Sūraṇa-kanda is Amorphophallus, the elephant-foot yam; vajra-kanda a second yam; garjara the carrot; kaseruka a water-tuber, thega and ārdra-mustā two sedges with tubers, the last the nutgrass. The heading, all root-kinds, is what brings in everything the verses do not name - the onion above all, and the potato and sweet potato - and what lets the dried root through, since a root dried is a root that will not grow. The marks are the test; the yams, radish and garlic have entries of their own.

The six marks, and the thirty-twoJīvavicāra 12: how to tell a common body from a body of its ownPravacanasāroddhāra 236–241: the thirty-two, in the verse's order; identifications are Williams' or marked not identifieda tile opens its own entry where there is one, the list's entry where there is nota body of its ownpatteya - one soul, one bodya common bodysāhāraṇa - infinite souls, one bodyshowngūḍha-sirathe veinshiddenshowngūḍha-sandhithe jointshiddenshowngūḍha-pavvathe nodeshiddenunevensama-bhaṅgathe breakeventhreadsahīruhathe fibrenonedieschinna-ruhacutgrows againtinted by part - roots and bulbs, shoots and leaves, creepers, fungus and bark and the unidentified - the atlas's grouping, for the eye; the verse gives none1sūraṇa-kandaelephant-foot yamAmorphophallus campanulatusentry2vajra-kandaa yamSynantherias sylvaticaentry3ārdra-haridrāfresh turmericCurcuma longaentry4ārdrakafresh gingerZingiber officinaleentry5ārdra-kaccūrafresh zedoaryCurcuma zedoariaentry6śatāvarīwild asparagusAsparagus racemosus7virālīnot identified8kumārīaloe9snuhī · thoharthe milk-hedge spurgeEuphorbia neriifolia10guḍūcī · galothe moonseed creeperTinospora cordifolia11laśunagarlicAllium sativumentry12vaṃśa-karīrabamboo shootsentry13garjaracarrotDaucus carotaentry14loṇaka · lūṇīpurslane15lodhakanot identified16giri-karṇikānot identified17kisalayaevery new shootentry18kaserukaa water-tuberScirpus kysoorentry19thegaa sedge-tuberCyperus bulbosusentry20ārdra-mustāfresh nutgrassCyperus rotundusentry21lavaṇa-vṛkṣa-tvakbark of the salt tree22khelluḍanot identified23amṛta-vallīa creeper24mūlakaradishRaphanus sativusentry25bhūmi-ruhamushrooms and fungientry26virūḍhasprouted grain and pulseentry27vatthulaa goosefoot green28sūkara-vallīa creeper29palyaṅkaa leaf-greenBeta maritima30komala-amlikātender tamarindTamarindus indicaentry31ālukaa yamArum colocasiaentry32piṇḍālukaa yamentry
The six marks, and the thirty-two - The roots highlighted

Measurements and counts

In the versessūraṇa · vajra · garjara · kaseruka · thega · ārdra-mustā
Under the headingevery kanda - the onion among them
Driedallowed - it will not grow

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10