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Rāypaseniya-sutta.
to the mind, beautiful, and eminent. It is expounded that on those four sides of each of those wells (upto) rows of small wells, there are three-fold'excellent stair-cases (the description of those three staircases): It is to be understood that on those staircases there are arches, flags, and umbrellas over umbrallas. In those small wells (upto) series of well arranged wells, there are a good deal of mountains, Uppāya, Niyai, Jagai and Dāruijja by name, bowers in which sprays of water dripple down (or the crystalline bowers), mansions prepared out of crystals, Sofās made of crystals, lofty, very low, swinging beds and oscillating beds which could be used by birds too. They are made of jewels all in all and are extraordinary (upto) splendid. On those Uppāya mountain (upto) oscillating beds which could be used by the birds also, there are many seats having the shapes of swans, herons, eagles, seats rising up, very low seats, oblong seats, seats resembling the shapes of birds, auspicious seats, seats' like the shapes of bullock, lions, lotuses and the figure of ‘Disā-sotthiya'. Those seats are made of precious stones all in all and are supper-fine (upto) eminent. In those forest.
