70. In this manner the current of vital airs, conducts the breath of life in to the heart; which becomes the living spirit, by force of the acts of its prior states of existence.
71. The vital airs being vitiated, in the body, cause the colic pains known by different names; such as flatulence, bile and the like.
72. The colic caused by vitiation of the Vyána air, produces many diseases, and affects all the members of the body with a watery fluid. When it comes by breathing of the lungs, it causes the Váya súla or pulmonary colic of lungs, and is attended by disfigurement of the body, and insanity or hysteria known as the hysteric colic.
73. Sometimes it comes from the hands of sheepkeepers, and by the smell of the sheep’s wool in blankets; and at others it seizes the fingers of children, and causes them to tear their bed cloths therewith.
74. When it enters the body by the foot, it continues in sucking the blood; and with all its voracity, becomes satisfied with very little food.
75. It lies in the glandular vessel of the faeces, with its mouth placed downward; and takes at pleasure any form, it likes to assume as its prerogative.
76. It is the nature of the malicious, to show the pervertedness of their hearts by doing injury to others; as it is characteristic of the base people to raise a row for their pleasure, and not for any gain or good to themselves.
77. The miserly think much of their gain of even a single cowry: so deeprooted is the avaricious selfishness of human nature. (All little gain is no gain, compared with the wants of men).
78. It was but for a particle of blood, or as much as could be picked out by the point of a pin, that the colic Súchí was bent on the destruction of men: so the wise are fools in their own interests (and so do cut-throats kill others for a single groat).
79. How great is my master-stroke, says the needle, that from stitching the shreds of cloth, have come to the pitch of piercing the hearts of men; so be it and I am happy at my success.