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## Twenty-Third Chapter
O King! I have seen the Jain temples there. In the Nandana forest, I have seen very beautiful Chaitya-alaya. Those temples have many kinds of gem-studded bells and their seats are made of gold. ||13|| They are adorned with golden pillars, radiating various kinds of rays, resembling the sun-chariot, adorned with garlands and toranas, enriched with gem-studded garlands, with vast Vedikas in their grounds, with walls made of excellent Vaidurya gems, decorated with pictures of elephants, lions, etc., and whose interiors are filled with divine women playing music. I have bowed to all the Jina images in such Devaranya Chaitya-alayas. ||14-16||
I have circumambulated Mount Meru, which is endowed with the brilliance of artificial images, and have gone to the very high sky, piercing the cloud-sheet. ||17|| And I have bowed to the many great, radiant Jina Chaitya-alayas on the peaks of the Kulachala mountains. ||18|| O King! In all those Chaitya-alayas, I bow to all the great, radiant, non-artificial images of the Jinas. ||19||
When Narada said this, King Dasharatha, with folded hands and bowed head, uttered the words, "Salutations to the Lord of Lords." ||20||
Then, prompted by Narada's signal, King Dasharatha, with respect, had all the people removed from there by the gatekeeper. ||21||
Then, when they were alone, Narada said to King Dasharatha, the ruler of Kosala, "O King! Listen attentively, I am telling you a good thing." ||22||
I went to the peak of Trikuta mountain with great eagerness to pay my respects. There, I bowed to the very beautiful Shantinath Bhagwan's Jinalaya. ||23||
Then, by the influence of your merit, I heard a decision of Vibhishana and other ministers of Lanka's king, Ravana. ||24||
There, a man named Sagarbuddhi, who had the knowledge of auspicious omens, told Ravana that the son of King Dasharatha would be the cause of your death. ||25||
Similarly, the daughter of King Janaka will also be a cause in this. ||26||
Hearing this, Vibhishana, with a heavy heart, decided... ||26||