32. And those which had no Spark took huge she‐animals unto them. They begat upon them dumb races. Dumb they were themselves. But their tongues untied. The tongues of their progeny remained still. Monsters they bred. A race of crooked red‐hair‐covered monsters going on all fours. A dumb race to keep the shame untold. Stanza IX. 33. Seeing which, the Lhas who had not built men, wept, saying: 34. “The Amânasa have defiled our future abodes. This is Karma. Let us dwell in the others. Let us teach them better, lest worse should happen.” They did.... 35. Then all men became endowed with Manas. They saw the sin of the mindless. 36. The Fourth Race developed speech. 37. The one became two; also all the living and creeping things that were still one, giant fish, birds and serpents with shell‐heads. Stanza X. 38. Thus, two by two, on the seven Zones, the Third Race gave birth to the Fourth; the Sura became A‐sura. 39. The First, on every Zone, was moon‐coloured; the Second yellow like gold; the Third red; the Fourth brown, which became black with sin. The first seven human shoots were all of one complexion. The next seven began mixing. 40. Then the Third and Fourth became tall with pride. “We are the kings; we are the gods.” 41. They took wives fair to look upon. Wives from the mindless, the narrow‐headed. They bred monsters, wicked demons, male and female, also Khado, with little minds. 42. They built temples for the human body. Male and female they worshipped. Then the Third Eye acted no longer. Stanza XI. 43. They built huge cities. Of rare earths and metals they built. Out of the fires vomited, out of the white stone of the mountains and of the black stone, they cut their own images, in their size and likeness, and worshipped them. 44. They built great images nine yatis high, the size of their bodies. Inner fires had destroyed the land of their fathers. The water threatened the Fourth. 45. The first great waters came. They swallowed the seven great islands. 46. All holy saved, the unholy destroyed. With them most of the huge animals, produced from the sweat of the earth. Stanza XII. 47. Few remained. Some yellow, some brown and black, and some red remained. The moon‐coloured were gone for ever. 48. The Fifth produced from the holy stock remained; it was ruled over by the first Divine Kings. 49. ... The Serpents who re‐descended, who made peace with the Fifth, who taught and instructed it.... Commentaries On the Twelve Stanzas and Their Terms, According To Their Numeration, In Stanzas And Shlokas. Stanza I. Beginnings of Sentient Life. 1. The Lha, or Spirit of the Earth. 2. Invocation of the Earth to the Sun. 3. What the Sun answers. 4. Transformation of the Earth.