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RĀJAPRAŚNIYA SUTRA earthen pitchers, some of them natural and some artificial (lit. created by supernatural power), which were place on beautiful lotuses, and filled with excellent fragrant water, which were smeared with sandal paste, to which the threads were fastened on the neck, and which had lotus-petals for their lids, and which were taken on the palms of their very tender hands, as also with all the waters, all the (types of) earths, all Tūvaras,..upto.. with all herbs and white mustards, and to the accompaniment of various instruments. Then as the great Indra-like coronation of the god Sūryābha was going on, some of the gods sprinkled the Sūryābha Vimāna with a divine shower of fragrant water, with moderate quantity of water, so as not to cause too much rnud, and calculated to destroy the dust by spirinkling it sparcely. Others rendered the place free from dust, with all the dust removed, destroyed, suppressed or put down and settled down. Some other gods sprinkled with water, cleaned, and smeared the Süryabha Vimana, and made the roads and the shops and the space between them quite clean and polished. Others equipped the Sūryābha Vimāna with conches upon conches. Others decorated the Sūryāblia Vimāna was flags, and banners upon banners, that were high and had various colours. There were others wbo smeared the Süryābha Vimāna with cow-dung and purified it, and marked it (or the walls) with thick prints of palms (lit. five fingers) dipped in Gośirsa, and fresh red-sandal. There were other gods. who filled the Sūryābha Vimāna with sandal pitchers, and placed the sandal-pitchers under the beautiful arches and at the entrance. There were others who hung and suspended collections of plenty of round garlands in the Sūryābha Vimāna. There were some gods who scattered the offerings of five-coloured fragrant flowers in the
