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The floors and the ceilings of the Mukhamandapas... etc....on those Mukhamandapas there were the Eight Auspicious things, flags, and umbrellas upon umbrellas. In front of those Mukhamandapas there is in each direction an Audiance hall (or a theatre), the description being the same as that of the Mukhamandapa...upto...the doors, floor and ceiling. In the very centre of these very level and beautiful [Page 183] piece of ground, there is in each (quarter) a gymnasium, built with precious stones. In each of these diamond-gymnasiums, in the centre, there are placed jewelled platforms. Those jewelled seats are eight yojanas in length and breadth, four yojanas in thickness, all made of jewels, bright,...upto...beautiful. Above these jewelled-platforms, on each of them, there are placed lion-seats, the whole of the description of the thrones (to be inserted). Above these theatres, there are Eight Auspicious things, flags and banners upon banners. In front of each of these theatres there are jewelledplatforms. These jewelled platforms are sixteen yojanas in length and breadth, eight yojanas in thickness, all made of jewels, bright, and beautiful. Above each of these (jewelled platforms), there are Comes (or Stupas). These Stupas (or pillars) are sixteen yojanas in length and breadth, and more than sixteen yojans in height; they are white, resembling the conches, kunda flowers, water drops, the cluster of foam, or nectar being churned, all made of gems, bright..upto...beautiful. On those Stūpas there are the eight Auspicious things, flags, and banners upon banners. In all the four directions of these Stūpas there are jewelled platforms. These jewelled platforms are eight yojans in length and breadth, four yojanas in thickness, all made of jewels, bright...up
