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heavenly life and mythical beliefs on the walls of the Great Hall of the Mahā-Ummaga palace is also given :1
1. SAKKA-VILĀSA: Scenes of Indra enjoying dance and music with his heavenly nymphs in Sudharmā Assembly Hall
2. SINERU-PARIBHANDA : The beautiful designs on the vertical faces of the terraces round the mountain Sumeru.
3. SĀGARA-MAHA-SAGARA : Small and big ponds with lotus and other flowers and a number of watery birds and aquatic animals.
4. CHATU-MAHĀDVIPA: The four continents which faced the four cardinal points of Sumeru.
5. HIMAVANTA: The great Himalaya mountain shown with its Kailāsa peak, especially Lake Mānasarovara or Anavatapta with the four great rivers flowing in the four directions.
6. ANOTATTA: This was the same as Mānasarovara, the ideal holy lake described in Jaina, Buddhist, and Brahmanical literatures, as the holy lake of Brahmã. The Saptarshis, gods and other divine beings, take their bath in the Anotatta in which the Buddha also is said to have taken his bath.
7. MANO-SILĀTALA: The great throne made of red stone which was placed near a pond or in the main Assembly Hall of the palace for the king to sit and rest.
S. CHANDA-SŪRIYA: The motif of the Moon and the Sun who were drawn as gods in human form or in natural
form.
9. CHĀTUM-NAH ĀRĀJIKA: The four Mahārājika Gods with their courtly attendants, viz., Vaisravana, king of Yakshas in the north ; Dhșitrashtra, king of Gandharvas in the cast ; Virūdhaka, king of the Kumbhändas in the souih; and Virūpāksha, king of thc Nāgas in the West.
10. CHHA-KĀMA-SAGGA: i.e. the six heavens of scnsuous pleasures, popularly conceived as abodes of happiness and longevity, same as kamā achara Deva-loka. 1. 'lcha Ummoze ja, VI, 432.
