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hundred and eight in number. Moreover there are also one hundred and eight flags on which the figures of excellent elephants having four tusks, are painted. It is stated that, in this way in Suriyābha abode from one end to the other on every door there are one-thousand and eighty flags. In Suriyabha abode there are sixty-five types of floors (for each and every door). The description of the surface of those floors and the ceiling above them is to be inserted (as it is given formerly). Exactly in the middle parts of those floors there is one throne at every place (the description of the throne with all paraphernalia is to be uuderstood here). On the remaining parts of the ground there are everywhere auspicious seats.
The upper portions of those doors are decorated by sixteen types of jewels. Those (sixteen types of jewels) are as follows:- gem [upto] Rittha jewel. Above each of those doors there are eight auspicious banners [upto] umbrellas over umbrellas. In this way in Sūriyābha Vimāna it is expounded that there are four-thousand doors from one end to the other. On the four sides of Suriyābha abode. there are four forest-groves, five hundred Yo
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