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RĀJAPRAŚNIYA SUTRA to beautiful. On these jewelled platforms, there are installed four idols of the Jinas, of the measurement and height of the Jinas themselves (i.e. life-size images), sitting in Paryanka posture, & facing the Stūpas. They were as follows:-(1) Rşabha, (2) Vardhamāna, (3) Chandrānana, and (4) Vārisena. In front of each of those Stūpas there are placed jewelled platforms.
[Page 184 ) On those jewelled-platforms, on each of them, there are Chaitya trees (i. e. the sacred trees with a raised basin). Those Chaitya trees are eight yojanas in height, eight yojanas in depth (or girth ?); their trunks were two yojanas in height, half a yojana in breadth, their branches were six yojanas (in height), in the centre they (i. e. the trees) were eight yojanas in length and breadth, and were more than eight yojanas at the extreme top. Those Chaitya trees could be described as follows:the roots of those trees were made of diomands, their branches were properly fixed in silver, their broad bulbs were made of Ristha jewels, their trunks were beautiful and made of lapis-lazuli, with their roots made of gold and grown up, having broad branches; they had leaves and stems made of various gems, and jewels, and their branches and sub-branches were made of lapis-lazuli; they were adorned with red, soft and tender spr ts made of Jāmbūnada gold, they had beautiful blossoms and tips; their branches were bent low under the burden of various flowers and fruit made of gems and jewels, they were giving great mental satisfaction and delight; they had fruit having nectar-like taste, were beautiful, shining, glorious, resplendent and beautiful. On those sacred trees there are Eight Auspicious thing; flags and
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