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Rāypaseniya-sutta.
success. Thereafter that Sūriyābha god when his great installation ceremony was performed by sprinkling the coronation water quitted the anointing hall by the eastern door; having done so, he went to the place where there: was decoration chamber ( saloon ); having done so, circumambulating again and again entered into the saloon ( Alankāriya Sabhā ) by the eastern door; having done so, he marched forth to the place where there was the throne and ascending over it (he) took his seat facing to the east. Then the celestial beings who were the members of Sāmāniya-congregation made preparations for the decoration materials. Thereafter that Sūriyābha god first of all, with a delicate, scented and coloured wooly garment (towel specially prepared for wiping the body) began to wipe his limbs; having done so, he daubed (besme. ared) the parts of his body with juicy Gosīs sandal; having done so he put on a pair of divine and celestial garments having the complexion of sky and crystal, interwoven with gold, (extremely ) white, surpassing the saliva of the horse in softness, equipped with (both) (excellent) colour and (soft) touch, (which were) bewitching the eyes, and could be easily carried
