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.. (33) Exactly in the middle part of each of those forest-groves, there are lofty palaces. Those stately mansions are five-hundred Yojanas in height, two-hundred ' fifty Yojanans in breadth, gone high up, rising up-right, and dazzling ( the description of the extremely beautiful even floors, ceiling, throne aud all other retinue is to be understood here ) in the same way (i. e. as is already given ). Four types of celestial beings, greatly prosperous [upto] whose maximum duration of life is one Paliovama stay there. Those (four types of gods) are as follows:-(Superhuman beings living in ) Asoya palace, Satta-vanna villa, Champak castle and Chuyag palace (or Asoya, Satta-vanna, Champak and Chuyag classes of gods.) The eminently charming surface of the ground of the internal part of the abode of Sūriyābha, is described as follows:- It is devoid of forest-groves [upto] multitudes of residential gods and goddesses sit [uplo] wander there. It is expounded that exactly in the middle part of that eminently charming even floors, there is a raised square at the gate of the palace, kept for entrance, (Uvgāriyālayan) whose length and breadth are one lac Yojanas, and
