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Rāypaseniya-sutta.
types of musical instruments, and encircled by nets of small gingling bells made of gold, and which are prepared out of the excellent wood of Tinish ( tree growing on Himālaya mountain ) and inlaid with gold. The series of the spokes and the yoke of which are well fastened, the felly of the wheel is well set up and made of iron, to which excellent horses of noble breed are yoked, which is well controlled by the charioteer who is the best among dextrious persons, which is encircled. by thirty-two quivers each containing hundred arrows, having a thorny head ornament. as an armour, which is ready for the battle being equipped with bows, arrows, weapons and armours, oft and often driven fast in court-yard of the royal palace or royal barem, or extremely beautiful floor studded with gems and! jewels, or brought back from those places, pervades the whole of the part by the sound, pleasing to the ears and mind, enchanting, and extra-ordinary.
(2) Is the above stated description correct?
(Ans.) No it is not correct (it is far more surpassing than what has been described in the