Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATÍ SÚTRA
(Ch. IV
It had a variegated roof (i. e, the ceiling had a canopy of painted cloth) "vicitta-ullogacilliga" with lotus flowers and shining floor having the darkness dispelled by the studded jewels and pearls (cilligatale manirayanapaņāsiyamdhayāre) and with many equally divided parts ; it was furnished with the presents of heaps of flowers of five colours, juice, fragrance ; and it was made beautiful (abhirāma) by the production of spreading smell of black fragrant aloe wood and best perfume (ciļā), olibanum (silhaka) and incense full of pleasant odour and excellent smell.
The bed chamber was also provided with the scented pills (gandhavattibhūe) and furnished with a bed having cushion equal to the size of the human body, pillows on both sides ; it was high on both sides, sunk (low) in the middle like the pressed down sand of the bank of the Ganges, covered with a sheet of adorned covering cloth of linen and woven silk and duküla (dugulla) cloth, and then a well-worked bed-sheet (rayattāna) and a covering of red cloth (rattarmsuya) having the soft touch like that of fur, cotton, fibres and fresh butter.
It was furnished with the presents of layer of fragrant, excellent flowers, powders and scented pills. Outer assembly hall
The outer assembly halla was well furnished with one throne (lion-seat) and other seats covered with the auspicious white cloths.
Likewise the inner assembly hall was equipped with the seats for the royal ladies whose privacy was maintained by drawing a curtain (javaniyā) in between the two halls.
This curtain was embroidered with jewels and gems and was much visible, very costly, produced in a best city (mahaaghavara pattanuggayan), furnished with the beautiful fillets, and it was a fine fabric decorated with many hundreds of devotional pictures, images of wolves, bulls, men, dolphins (or shirk), birds, snakes, kinnaras (a class of vyantaras), yaks, elephants, shrubs and plants and other pictures.
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