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[352] [The ninth section of the Sutrakritanga, the section on the forest, is described as cool and cool-appearing. When the leaves have passed childhood, they become cool. Due to their combination, the forest is also cool and appears cool. Intense, smooth, and sharp are the terms used to describe the black, blue, and green colors in their own nature. Due to this combination, the forest is also described as smooth, smooth-appearing, sharp, and sharp-appearing. Appearance can also be deceptive, like the mirage in the desert, which is a deceptive appearance of water. Therefore, to negate the deceptive appearance, other adjectives have been given, such as black and black-shadowed. The forest appears black and black-shadowed to everyone equally. This indicates its inconsistency. Deceptive appearance does not appear the same to everyone. Blue and blue-shadowed, cool and cool-shadowed. The forest is blue and blue-shadowed. It is cool and cool-shadowed. Here, the word "shadow" should be understood as the opposite of sunlight. Dense-shadowed. The trees in this forest have dense shade in the middle because there are many branches and twigs spread out in the middle. This makes their shade dense. Delightful. This forest is delightful. Like a multitude of great rain clouds filled with water. The description of the trees in the forest is clear from the original text, which is given in parentheses. The land of that forest is extremely delightful and flat. Various similes have been given to describe its flatness. The flatness of the land has been compared to the stretched skin of various animals like a buffalo, a drum, a lake, a palm, a mirror, the moon, the sun, the skin of a bull, and the skin of a bull. When the skin of these animals is stretched with the help of nails, it becomes completely smooth and flat, without any wrinkles. Similarly, the land is flat, not bumpy, uneven, or high and low. Therefore, it is extremely delightful. Not only that, but various kinds of paintings are drawn on that flat land. These paintings include paintings of mountains, valleys, rows, series, swastikas, auspicious swastikas, prosperous men, growing standards, fish-shaped ornaments, crocodile-shaped ornaments, and five-colored jewels with the characteristics of a jar-shaped ornament. Paintings of flower garlands, bird feathers, ocean waves, spring creepers, lotus creepers, etc., are painted with five-colored jewels and grass. Those jewels are of five colors, they are lustrous, radiant, and illuminating. The next section of the sutra describes the five types of jewels and grass through similes. It is as follows: 126. [2] There, those black grasses and jewels, they are described as having this color and appearance. They are like charcoal, collyrium, antimony, lampblack, ink, a kind of red earth, and a kind of red earth. 1-In some manuscripts, the reading "ink" and "a kind of red earth" is not present.