Śrī Sūta said: They are the waters, the fire, the earth, the wind, the intermediate region between the heaven and the earth, the ether, the heaven, the quarters, the oceans, the rivers, the vegetable kingdom, the souls of medicinal herbs, the souls of trees and creepers, the winding plants, the units of time such as Kāṣṭhās, Kalās, Muhūrtas etc., the twilights, the nights, the days, the half-years, the months, the Ayanas (the period of the transits of the sun from north to south and vice versa), the years and yugas.