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Rāypaseniya-sutta.
in the middle and thin at the top. Its structure is like that of the tail of a cow made wholly of gold and superfine [upto] splendid. That rampart . is decorated by the cornicesprepared out of five-coloured variegated jewels. Those ('five cornices ) are as follows-black, blue, red, yellow, and white. Those cornices are one Yojana in length, half Yojana in breadth, a little bit less to one Yojana in height, and all in all made of precious stones superfine [upto] splendid. It is expressed that there are one-thousand entrances to each of the sides of the abode of Sūriyābha god. Those doors are five-hundred Yojanas in height, twohundred and fifty Yojanas fin breadth. The same (two hundred and fifty Yojanas ) is the size of entrances. Those ( doors ) are white. The peaks on them are made of gold. Those peaks are painted with variegated pictures of wolf, bullock, horse, man, shark, bird, snake (leopard), Kinnar, deer, Sharabha (fabulous animal having eight feet ), yak, elephant, the creeper in general and lotus creeper. The altars on their pillars are made of adamant: which are spread all over with beauty, equipped with the rotating machine of the pair of Vijjā--
