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RĀJAPRAŚNIYA SUTRA white chowries, which were white, soft, having handles of silver studded with diamonds, having the pure fragrance as that of lotuses, charming, lovely, agreeable to the sight and beautiful. Above these arches, he also created by magic, many umbrellas upon umbrellas, pairs of bells, banners upon banners, bunches (or clusters) of lotuses, clusters of Kumuda, Nalina, Subhaga, Saugandhika, Pundarika, Satapatra, and Sa hasra patra lotuses, all of diamonds, pure (or bright) ..upto.. beautiful. Then the Abhiyogika god created by magic the very level and beautiful floor inside that celestial aerial .car. (Page 63] E. g. the floor was like the surface of a druin, or tabor, or the surface of a lake (filled with water), or like the palm of the hand, or like the orbs of the Sun or the Moon, or like the surface of a mirror, or like the hide (or skin) of a ram, or a bull, or a boar, or a lion, or a tiger, or a deer, or a goat, or a leopardall these skins being stretched (and fastened ) with .many thousands of nuts and nails. The floor was also decked with various sorts of five-coloured gems, like the Avarta, Pratyāyarta, Sreni, Praśreņi, Swastika, Pūsan, Mānaka, Vardhamānaka, Mātsyandaka, Makarāndaka, Jāra, māra; there were the paintings and decorations of lotus-leaves, rows of flowers, sea-ripples, Vāsanti creepers, lotus-plants, etc; the gems were full of lustre, sheen, rays, and splendour, and were of the following five colours: – viz. black, blue, red, yellow, and white. Now, the black gems that were there, could be described as follows:-e.g. they were in colour) like a cloud (full of water), or black pigment, or soot, or collyrium,, or a buffalo's horn, or an article made of buffalo-horn
or a bee, or swarms of bees, or the black spot under Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
