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umbrellas upon umbrellas. In front of these sacred trees there were jewelled-platforms on each side of them. These jewelled platforms are eight yojans in length and breadth, four yojanas in thickness (or width), were made of gems, and were bright..upto.. beautiful. On each of those jewelled-platforms there are great Indra-banners. These great banners in honour of Indra' are sixty yojanas in height, one yojana in depth; and a yojana in breadth; [page 185] they are made of diamonds, are circular, soft, polished, cleaned, and well balanced (firmly planted); they are beautiful and charming, being decora ted with many thousands of five-coloured and beautiful small banners; there were also many Vaijayanti banners, proclaiming victory; and which were being moved by the wind; they were endowed with umbrellas upon umbrellas, were lofty, with their tops scraping (or touching) the sky, and beautiful...with the Eight Auspicious things, flags, and umbrellas upon umbrellas. In front of each of those big Indra-flags, thers is a lake named as Nanda. These Nanda Puskariņis are one hundred yojanas in length, fifty yojanas in breadth, ten yojanas in depth and bright...the description. Some of them were full of water, and each of them was surrounded by a beautiful lotus altar...and each surrounded by a forest grove. To the three quarters of these Nanda Puskarinis, in all the three quarters, there are beautiful staircases, arches, flags, and umbrellas upon umbrellas. In the Sudharma Assembly there are forty-eight thousand Manogulikās (or peculiar seats); they were (divided) as follows:sixteen thousand to the east, sixteen thousand to the west, eight thousand to the south, and eight thousand to the north. On those Manogulika (seats) there were
