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[51 Chūta. The interior of the celestial Vimāna Sūrjābha, is said to be very level (or smooth) and charming, e.g. deleting the description of the forest-grove...( the rest to be supplied upto )... numerous Vaimānika gods and goddesses come and sit there and enjoy. Right in the very centre of that very smooth and level piece of ground, there is a pavilion, one hundred thousand yojanas in in length and breadth, 3006227 yojanas, six miles, twenty-eight hundred (or one hundred and twenty-eight) Dhanus, and slightly less then thirteen and a half Angulas in circumference. A yojana in thickness (?), all made of Jāmbūnada gold, bright...upto... beautiful.
[ Page 171 ) ( Sūtra 34 ) That (pavilion ) is surrounded on all sides by an altar of beautiful lotuses, and by a forest-grove. [ Page 172 ] The beautiful lotus-altar is half a yojana in height, five hundred Dhanus in breadth, and like (i. e. of the same measure as ) the pavilion in circumference. The beautiful lotus-altar could be described as follows: e.g. the foundation was made of diamonds; the supports were of Ristha gems, the pillars of lapis-lazuli, the planks of gold and silver, the nails of rubies, the human figures, carved there, were of various gems; the pairs of human figures also were of various different gems; the images and their pairs were of various gems; the side-wings were of anka gems. The bamboos (or beams) and the cross-beams were of Jyotīrasa, the small slabs (or pieces of planks ) were of silver, the bolts were of gold, the upper support ( of the bolt), and the covering (or plastering) was of silver. That beautiful lotus-altar was surrounded on all sides by a lattice-work of gold, by a network of windows, by a network of small bells and big bells, by a net work
