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Raypaseniya-sutta.
to slap the ground. Some did the three (things).. Some gave out thundering noise. Some caused lightning. Some began to shower rain. Some did the three (things). Some began to burn. Some began to heat. Some heated (themselves), exceedingly. Some did the three (actions). Some called out. Some uttered the word fie upon. Some hooted out (or exclaimed). Some gave out their own names respectively. Some did the four (actions). Some began to gather the groups of gods. Some exhibited divine lustre.. Some produced inaudible sound of divine beings.. Some gave out bustling sound. Some celestial beings began to exclaim 'Duha-Duha'. Some sho wered clothes (or waved the garments in the sky). Some held lotuses in their hands [upto] grasped lac petaled lotuses in the hands. Some gripped pitchers in the hands upto.......stood ) with their hands engaged in holding the vessels for burning incense (and were) delighted, pleased [upto ] at heart began to slide and glide here and there (i. e. in all directions ). Then those four-thousand Sāmāniya types of Devās [ upto ] sixteen-thousand celestial beings as body-guards and multitudes of other gods and goddesses residing in the capital of Sūriyābha,
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