Shiva Purana

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देवयोन्यष्टकं मुख्यं मानुष्यमथ मध्यमम् ॥ पक्ष्यादयो ऽधमाः पञ्चयोनयस्ताश्चतुर्दश ॥ ७० ॥

The eight groups of Deva-Beings are the chief ones. The human beings constitute the middling. The five Beings birdes ॥ birds?॥ etc. constitute the lower ones. Thus there are fourteen Beings.

english translation

devayonyaSTakaM mukhyaM mAnuSyamatha madhyamam ॥ pakSyAdayo 'dhamAH paJcayonayastAzcaturdaza ॥ 70 ॥

hk transliteration by Sanscript