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RAJAPRAŚNIYA SUTRA posture, well-supported, well-adorned, having various red coloured garments, and with many garlands put on (or fastened on the necks); their waists could be easily grasped by the fists (i.e, they were so slender), they had buxom bosoms, woich were exuberant and shaped like a pair of round wreaths (Apidas) placed in a line; the comers of their eyes were red; they possessed black hair that were soft, clear, having auspicious marks, and curly at the tips; they were slightly resting on the excellent Asok a trees, holding the branches with their left hands; attracting (the hearts of the onlookers) by their sidelong glances; teasing one another by their piercing ; looks and (though) made up of earth they had become eternal (V. L. rendered dark ?); they had moon-like faces; were as graceful as the moon, bad foreheads like the crescent moon, and were more gentle in appearance than even the moon; they were (dazzling) like meteors, resembled the lightning, or a pencil of rays, and were even brighter than the light of the sun; and they were charmingly and amorously dressed, and were beautiful..etc.
[Page 138] (Sūtra 28) On both the sides of those doors, near the seats at the entrance, there were series of sixteen latticed windows (on each side). Those latticed windows were all made of jewels, and were bright... upto.. beautiful. On both the sides of those doors there were series of sixteen bells, placed on the seats at the entrance. [Page 139] This is the description of those bells:e,g. The bells were made of gold, the bell hammers were made of diamonds, the sides of the bells were made of (i.e. decorated with) various jewels, the chains were made of gold and the ropes were of silver. Those bells had a continuons sound, like that of (a peal
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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