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Rāypaseniya-sutta. (Ans.) No. It is not correct ( Oh! long lived ascetic! After all those are analogical similies, but) the contact of those jewels was more agreeable, lovely, charming, and pleasing in touch. Then that servile god erected a colossus theatre, exactly in the middle of that divine vehicle, supported by hundreds of pillars having excellent, protruding, and well arranged altars, decked with beautiful arches and puppets, (équipped with ) spotless, well adhered, pillars of particular beautiful shape, and studded with auspicious Veruliya jewels ( which was ) made dazzling by studding many varieties of jewels at quite different places, and painted with variegated pictures of wolf, bullock, horse, man, shark, (crocodile), bird, snake (leopard), Kinnar, deer, Sharabh, yak, elephant, creeper in general and lotus creeper, having the tope of it erected out of precious stones jewels and gold, (equipped with ) the top most peak encircled by small bells and five coloured banners of various fashions shooting forth host of rays, (having ) the ground of it besmeared by means of cow dung and plastered walls stamped by the palms of the hands with the fingers' be. smeared in the varieties of sandals, such as
