ākāśa-ādira - of the sky, air and so on; guṇa - the qualities; yena - just as; para-para - one after another; bhūte - in the material elements; dui-tina - two and then three; krame - by gradations; bāḍe - increase; pañca - all five; pṛthivīte - in earth.

“The qualities in the material elements — sky, air, fire, water and earth — increase one after another by a gradual process of one, two and three, and at the last stage, in the element earth, all five qualities are completely visible.