21. Many magic scenes and many aerial castles and buildings, together with many a kingdom and palace, are built in this empty air, by the imaginations of men.
22. Here there were to be seen many edifices with several apartments counting from unit to the digit (and these are the various systems of philosophy, with one and many more number, of their respective categories).
23. There were some structures, constructed with ten or sixteen apartments; and others which had dozens and three dozens of doors, attached to them. (The predicaments of the Nyáya and Jaina systems of philosophy. But Buddhism or Jain Atheism is called Nirávarana, having no category but vacuity).
24. The whole ethereal space is full of the five primary elements, which compose elementary bodies of single or double and triple natures.
25. Some of these bodies are composed of quadruple, quintuple and hextuple elements, and others of seven different elementary principles called seven fold great elements—Sapta-mahá-bhutas. (They are the five subtile elements of earth, water, fire, air and vacuum, and the two principles of time and space, all which subsist in vacuity).
26. So there are many super-natural natures, which are beyond the power of your conception (as the Gods, demons and other etherial beings), and so there are spaces of everlasting darkness, without the light of the sun and moon.
27. Some parts of the void were devoid of creation, and others were occupied by Brahmá the creator—their master, some parts were under the dominion of the patriarchs or lords of creatures, and under influence of various customs.
28. Some parts were under the control of the vedas, and others were ungoverned by regulations of sástras; some parts were full of insects and worms, and others were peopled by gods and other living beings.
29. In some parts the burning fires of daily oblations were seen to rise, and at others the people were observant of the traditional usages of their respective tribes only (without knowing their reasons).
30. Some parts were filled with water, and others were the regions of storms; some bodies were fixed in the remote sky, and others were roving and revolving in it continually.