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Rāypaseniya-sutta.
companied by your own paraphernalia and having mounted on the celestial vehicles without delay be present in the vicinity of Sūriyābha god,
* (12) Then that celestial commander of an infantry being addressed thus by Sûriyābha god, Wås delighted, pleased [upto] at heart with due courteousness and obedience saying "Yes, my Lord" accepted his words; having done so, lie went (to the place) where: (there) was Sūriyäbha abode, Suhamma congregation-hall, and where there was the bell of one Yojana in cir. cumference, giviug out agreeable and gingling sound (at the same, time) producing deep and sweet" résounding noise like the thundering of the clouds; having gone ( there ), he struck thrice the bell of one yojan in circumfer nice giving out agreeable and gingling sound and (at the same time) capable of producing sweet and deep noise like the thundering of the clouds. Then as the bell of one Yojana in circumference, giviug out sweet sound and which was capable of producing sweet and deep noise like the thuudering of the clouds 'was beaten thrice, that Sūriyābha abode was filled with hundreds and thousands of echoes of the sound, that was falling on the mansions and pleasure hills of
