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RAJAPRAŚNIYA SUTRA those doors were decorated with sixteen types of jewels, as follows : by jewels..upto...Risthas. Just along those doors were placed the Eight Auspicious. Objects, with flags, and banners upon banners. Similarly in all the directions. It is said that there are four thousand doors in the Sūryābha Vimāna, (termed as ?) Aśokayana, Saptaparna, Champaka vana, and Chūtaka vana. Toward the four directiors of the Süryābha Vimāna, for five hundred yojanas, without a break (or at å stretch ), there are said to be four forest-groves; i.e. toward the east, there is Asokavana; to the south, Saptaparņavana; to the west Champakayana; and toward the north there is the mango grove. Those [Page 152] forestgroves were slightly more than twelve hundred and fifty Yojanas in length, five hundred yojanas in breadth, and each of them was encircled by a rampart; they were black, having black sheen......the description of the forest-grove.
[Page 156 ] ( Sutra 31 ) Inside these forest-groves, the ground was very level and even, just as, e. g., like the surface of a drum...upto...was decorated with various five-coloured jewels and grass. Their smell and touch should be known in due order ( as before). What sort of a sound was produced by those jewels and grass when they were gently stirred, moyed, wafted, set in motion, made to tremble, impelled and dashed against one another by breezes coming from the east, west, south and the north ? O Gautama l just 'as, e.g., there might be a palanquin, or a soft rolling cár, or à chariot having umbrellas, ilag, bells, banners, excellent arches, giving out sweet sound of chorus (or conch) surrounded by a net work of golden bells, made of Tiníśá. - wood growing on the
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