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Raypaseniya-sutta.
are prepared out of different types of jewels and precious stones, equipped with umbrellas over umbrellas and Vijaya and Vejayanta banners moved by the wind, very lofty, and their peaks are as if scratching the surface of the sky, the small peaks made of gold (studded with) jewels, are shining just like the bulging gems studded in the intervening parts of the cage-like windows (lattices), possessing hundred petalled blooming white lotuses, painted with the figures such as the mark on the fore-head the half-moon, and decked with the wreaths. prepared out of multitudes of jewels, very smooth, internally and outwardly. On it the golden dust is spread everywhere, very delightful to touch, equipped with extra-ordinary beauty, producing delight in the mind, worthy to look at [upto] above those square platforms, wreaths, banners, and umbrellas over umbrellas. Above those two sides of the doors there are series of sixteen arches. Those are of different types of jewels and (are) supported by the pillars of variegated jewels [ upto ] clusters of white
lotuses. In front of each of those arches there are two puppets. Their description is the same as that of the puppets of the downward part.
