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Rāypaseniya-sutta.
up small sportive puppets made of variegated jewels and precious stones. The walls are of adamant, and the peaks are of silver. The ceiling is wholly made of gold. The cage like windows prepared out of various sorts of jewels and gems, are jutting out from the main building, the bars are of precious stones, the cross bars are of gems known as 'Lobit, and the storey is prepared out of silver, the roof and the sides of the roof are of Anka jewels. The bamboos and the chips of the bamboos slantingly placed on both the sides of the roof are of Joirasa jewels, and the boards on them are that of silver, the thin mat to cover ( those boards ) is made of gold, the covering of thin grass over the mat is that of adamant, and extremely white covering of silver over it. Its golden peaks and small peaks are studded with Anka jewels, which are diversely engraved with the figures such as mark on the forehead and the half-moon, whose lustre is as pure and white as that of the upper part of the conch, the heaps of curds, the foam of the milk of the cow, and the mass of silver and (which are) decked with the necklaces of variegated jewels, extremely smooth from outside
