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Matsya Purana 119.8

Matsyapurāṇa 119.8

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Sanskrit

119.8

nānāmāṇikyakusumaiḥ suprabhābharaṇojjvalaiḥ.
tasmin sarasi padmāni padmarāgacchadāni tu.. 119.8 ..

The flowers and leaves were glowing gems, and it was full of lotuses whose petals were of ruby, whose anthers were diamond, and endowed with sweet scents, whose leaves were of emeralds, sapphires and lapislazuli, and whose pericarps were of gold. Not only was the bed of the lake of diamond, but it was full of various gems. There were to be found shells (cowries, oysters and conches), terrible crocodiles, fishes and tortoises. There were to be found pieces of emarald slabs, thousands of diamonds, rubies, sapphires, topazes, karkotakas, pieces of Tuthaka stone (copper sulphate), pieces of ivory, diamonds of the first water as well as of inferior kind, yellow stone, Sûryakântimaṇi, Chandrakântimaṇi, Syamantaka, Surora golaksha, crystal, Gomeda, Dhûlimarakata, Pittaka, lapis lazuli, Saugandhika (a kind of ruby), Râjamaṇi, Brahmamaṇi, Mukhyamaṇi, and starry pearls of various kinds.—8-18.

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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