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Translation.
[Thereafter many servile gods and goddesses with their own configurations, excellencies, crowds, retinues, and dresses, started forth in due order.] Then afterwards multitudes of residentlal gods and goddesses (who were ) the inhabitants of Suriyābha Vimana, with their pomp and splendour (upto) beauty, began to follow in front of, by the sides of, and (also) behind Suriyābha god.
(17) Then that Sūriyābha god surrounded by five (types) of armies, with a huge and great banner of Indra being dragged in front and which was formed of smooth circular adamant (upto) rising up-right to the height of one-thousand Yojanas, who was encircled by multitudes of residential gods and goddesses dwelling in Sūriyābha Vimana and four-thousand Sāmāniya gods (upto) sixteen-thousand celestial beings as body-guards, with all pomp (upto) [creating great] noise, through the midst of Sohamma heaven, displaying respeatedly, divine prosperity of gods, supernatural illumination of celestial beings, divine glory of heavenly beings, with great vigilence and watchfulness went to the place where there was the fixed route of Sohamma heaven
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