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Raypaseniya-sutta.
a good number of night lotuses, blue lotuses, white lotuses, evening blooming lotuses, white lotuses of noble type, hundred petalled lotuses, and thousand petalled lotuses etc.. pure like crystal [ upto ] splendid. Then that servile god prepared an extremely splendid ground in the interior part of that divine vehicle. It was just like the leather of tabor (Muraj by name), the leather of timbrel, the surface of the lake filled with water, the surface of the palm, the surface of the mirror, the leather of sheep, pig, ram, or leopard, which was dragged with many a thousand of small nails and painted. with variegated figures of circles and, cross. circles, lines and cross lines, Sotthiya Pūsmānag, Vaddhamanang, egg of fish, egg of shark, aquatic animal, series of flowers, lotus leaves, waves of the ocean, creepers of vernal season lotus creeper, and decked by the variegated crystal-like pure, brilliant glittering jewels. emitting series of rays on all sides. Those are black, blue, red, yellow and white in colour. Following type of description is stated for black coloured jewels whatever were there. Those were black like the cloud heavy with rain, collyrium, soot, lamp-black (collyrium),
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