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Räypaseniya-sutta.
of Jambunaya jewels, having excellent tops of sprouts, (whose ) branches are bending down due to the great load of fruits and fragrant flowers made of variegated jewels and gems, producing feelings of rapture ( delight) to the mind and the eyes to a great extent, equipped with the fruits having the juice just resembling the nectar, giving cool shade, brilliant, possessed of glory and lustre, worthy to be looked at [ charming, pleasing, and enchanting ]. On each of those holy trees there are eight auspicious banners and umbrellas over umbrellas, and in front of them (holy trees) there are precious stoned pedestals. Those precious stoned pedestals are eight Yojanas in length and breadth, four Yojanas in thickness, wholly prepared out of precious stones, and superfine [ upto ] eminent. Above each of those precious stoned pedestals, there is a huge banner (known as Mahindazaya). Those Mahinda banners are sixty Yojanas in height, one Yojana in depth, one Yojana in circumference, firmly established, very smooth due to rubbing, exceedingly charming due to the roundness of their form, made of adamant, of particular pattern, made charming being encircled by a
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