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Translation.
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the horn of a buffalow (wild buffalow ), pill of collyrium, bees, series of bees, or the internal part of the wing of a bee, Jambu fruit, offspring of a cow, cuckoo, elephant, black cobra, black Bakula flower, the portion of the sky made black by thickly set clouds, black Asoya tree, black Kanvira tree or blackBandhujiva (tree).
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(2.) Were those black jewels exactly like the above given similies?
(Ans.) No. It is not correct. (Oh! long lived ascetic! After all those are analogical similies but) those black jewels were more agreeable, lovely, charming, and pleasing in colour. Following type of description is stated for blue coloured jewels whatever were there. Those were blue like a certain bee, a wing of a bee, parrot, feather of a parrot, blue jay, the feather of the jay, the indigo plant, the part of the indigo plant, the pill of indigo, Priyangu tree, disease of teeth, the thickest grove, the garment of Balibhadda, the neck of a peacock, the flower of hemp, the flower of Bana, the flower of Anjana-Kesiya, blue lotuses, blue Asoya, blue Bandhujiva, or blue Kanavira.
