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chaste, filled with water, having the size of an intoxicated elephant's mouth and resembling the frontal globe on the head of an elephant (or a large water-pot ); having done so, he plucked the lotuses [upto] lac petaled lotuses which grew there; having done so climbed up from the Nanda lotus-pond; having done so, he started forth towards the temple of the perfect souls.
(44) Thereafter those four-thousand celestial beings of Sāmāniya class [ upto ] sixteenthousand divine beings as body-guards and multitudes of other gods and goddesses [....upto ....... residing in] Sūriyābha abode and some of the heavenly beings holding lotuses in their hands upto] gripping lac petaled lotuses began to go after Sūriyābha god. Then multitudes of servile gods and goddesses and some holding pitchers in their hands [upto] some having in their hands vessels for burning incense, delighted and pleased, [upto] proceeded behind Suriyābha god. Then that Sūriyábha god surrounded by the four-thousand Sāmāniya gods [upto] multitudes of other gods and goddesses (residing in ) Suriyābha abode, and with all pomp and splendour [upto] with great din
