These nine kinds of creation, and these principles, O king, which are twenty-four in number, are described to you according to what has been laid down in the scriptures.
एतानि नव सर्गाणि तत्त्वानि च नराधिप। चतुर्विंशतिरुक्तानि यथाश्रुतिनिदर्शनात्॥